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Charles Moses Endicott was the son of Moses Endicott and Anna (Towne) Endicott and was christened Moses, but his name was legally changed, March 4, 1829, to Charles Moses.
His father’s unexpected death in 1807, however, left the family poor, and he entered the counting-room of his uncle, Samuel Endicott.
He went to school in Salem and Andover and was preparing to go on to college.
He later moved to Boston to join the firm of William Ropes, but left there in 1812 to go as a supercargo for Pickering Dodge of Salem, on a long voyage to St. Petersburg.
At the close of the War of 1812 he took a similar voyage to the Far East, stopping at Calcutta and Sumatra.
For fifteen years Endicott traded along the Sumatra coast, being engaged chiefly in the importation of pepper.
During the delays incidental to the loading of his vessels, he made a careful and reliable survey of the coast and published Sailing Directions for the Pepper Ports on the West Coast of Sumatra (1833), intended to accompany his chart of the coast, which was of great service to American mariners and went through many editions.
His books are still preserved at the Essex Institute in Salem.
In 1830-31, while he was master of the Friendship, with a crew of seventeen men, his vessel was attacked by Malays at Qualah Battoo, on the west coast of Sumatra, and, while he was absent on shore, many of his sailors were brutally massacred and his ship was looted.
Endicott managed to escape and reach Muckie, where he found three American vessels.
With their aid he was enabled to recapture the Friendship, which he eventually piloted back to Salem.
An effective punishment for this outrage was administered on Febuary 7, 1832, when the United States frigate Potomac bombarded the town of Qualah Battoo.
In 1835 Endicott left the sea and settled down as cashier of the Salem Bank.
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Endicott was a courtly but rather fussy and peculiar man who became notorious for his eccentric conduct. He once as cashier refused to accept the deposits of one large firm because the bank-notes presented were dirty, and he did not wish to soil his hands.
Eventually his idiosyncracies became so marked that he was placed in an asylum, where he died just after reaching his seventieth year.
He was married, June 18, 1818, to Sarah Rolland Blythe, by whom he had two sons.
