Seneca G. Ewell (1837-1916) was a mariner and a Mason. He lived long enough to see his grandson Arthur E. Redfern become the highest-paid thoroughbred jockey in the United States. Seneca’s brother, Ezra Dingley Ewell (1830-1893), was a ship’s carpenter. Ezra’s wife and widow, Melintha Ann (Dyer) Ewell (1935-1917), was active in the Centenary Methodist Episcopal Church at 170 Commercial Street. Two years after her death, the Ewells, Redferns, and Smalls sold this property to the abutting Cape Cod Cold Storage Company.¹ The Ewell house was still standing as late as 1948, used by Atlantic Coast Fisheries — as successor to Cape Cod Cold Storage — as a storehouse and machine shop. It had been demolished by 1954.
Thumbnail image: Postcard view, circa 1910, from the Scrapbooks of Althea Boxell, Book 2, Page 5, on the Provincetown History Preservation Project (Dowd Collection), Page 1134.
