Editing Silas Talbot (section)

==Early life==

Talbot was born on 11 January 1751 at [[Dighton, Massachusetts|Dighton]] in the [[Province of Massachusetts Bay]], into a large farming family. At twelve, he took to seafaring, serving as a cabin boy in a coasting vessel. Talbot's performance proved outstanding, and by 1772 had saved up enough money to buy property on Weybosset Street in Providence, Rhode Island, and build a stone home, having learned the trade of stone masonry earlier in life.<ref name=Talbot48>{{cite book |last=Eastman |first=Ralph M. |title=Some Famous Privateers of New England |publisher=Kessinger Publishing, LLC |year=2004 |page=48 |isbn=1-4179-0676-6 |ref=Eastman |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=47qAqAqUlawC}}</ref> He enslaved people.<ref name="Congress slaveowners">{{Citation|title=Congress slaveowners|date=2022-01-13|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/history/interactive/2022/congress-slaveowners-names-list/|newspaper=The Washington Post|access-date=2022-07-05}}</ref>