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Oswego Palladium (Oswego, NY), Wed. , May 11, 1831 
TextNewspapers    We learn that during the gale on Monday last, the schooner Monroe, Capt. Host, belonging to the house of J. T. Trowbridge & Co. of this village, on her passage from Genesee River to this port, was driven ashore near Sodus, and so completely wrecked, that it is considered doubtful she can ...
Colonial Advocate (Toronto, ON), May 19, 1831 
TextNewspapers    The MONRO schooner,belonging to Oswego, went ashore last Sunday week four miles west of that port (two days from Ogdensburgh), and is a total wreck. The crew were all saved. ...
Cleveland Weekly Herald (Cleveland, OH), May 26, 1831, page 3 
TextNewspapers  Cleveland Weekly Herald (Cleveland, OH), May 26, 1831, page 3page 3  Column 2
Palladium and Chronicle (Oswego, NY), July 27, 1831 
TextNewspapers    Distressing Occurrence. - On Wednesday last the new and beautiful schooner Henry Clay, Capt. Duncan Campbell, of this port, bound to Cleveland, Ohio, with a cargo of 618 bbls. of salt, and having on board nine persons, was capsized in a gale and immediately sunk, near the mouth of Niagara...
Kingston Chronicle (Kingston, ON), Sat. , July 30, 1831 
TextNewspapers    SHIPWRECK ON LAKE ONTARIO. - The Henry Clay, on her first voyage from Oswego to Cleveland in Ohio, was upset in a squall off Niagara on the 20th July, and immediately sunk. She had 600 barrels of salt as cargo; of nine passengers on board - three only were saved; and these solely by the ...
Anti-Masonic Express (Rochester, NY), Aug. 9, 1831 
TextNewspapers    Shipwreck on Lake Ontario - On Tuesday, last about 11 o'clock A.M. the Schooner "Henry Clay," Captain Campbell of Oswego, when within 10 or 12 miles of the mouth of the Niagara River was struck by a heavy squall which capsized her instantly and she sank in a few minutes. Captain Campbell and...
Oswego Palladium (Oswego, NY), Wed., May 23, 1832 
TextNewspapers    The new schooner Ohio , owned by Walton Willet, of this village, was launched from the Ship Yard yesterday morning. She is rated at 120 tons, and is designed for the Welland Canal trade. ...
Oswego Palladium (Oswego, NY), Wed. , Dec. 5, 1832. 
TextNewspapers    Henderson, Mexico Bay November 15, 1832 Samuel Denison, Esq. - Sir - I left Oswego in the Martha Ogden, belonging to you, on the 12th instant, about half-past 1 P. M. , with every prospect of a pleasant and short passage to Sacket's Harbour. - Shortly after leaving the harbour of Oswego, the...
Oswego Palladium (Oswego, NY), Dec. 5, 1832 
TextNewspapers    Distressing Occurrence. -- On Sunday night last, the Sch. Caroline, Capt. Tyler, owned by J. T. Trowbridge & Co. of this village, sailed from this port for Ogdensburgh, laden with a valuable Cargo of Merchandize to the amount of some $30 or $40,000. When about 20 miles out, a sudden flaw of ...
Oswego Palladium (Oswego, NY), Jan. 2, 1833 
TextNewspapers    Salmon River and Sandy Creek Harbours -- The President's Message returning the Harbour Bill has been transmitted to the House of Representatives disclosing the reasons for withholding his signature. Comparing this Message and the address of the Oswego County Republican Convention of last ...
Oswego Palladium (Oswego, NY), Nov. 20, 1833 
TextNewspapers    - The schooner Two Brothers, Capt. Stevenson, sailed from Pultneyville for this port, on Tuesday the 12th inst., laden with wheat and apples. Since then nothing has been heard of her. On Sunday a barrel of apples, the captain's hat and the tiller were picked up ashore near the Nine Mile Point,...
Oswego Free Press (Oswego, NY), Dec. 4, 1833 
TextNewspapers    Last Saturday, agreeably to the notice in our last, the new and elegant Steamboat Oswego was launched, and it was the most splendid sight of the kind we ever beheld. She went offf into her future element, gracefully and proudly, without an hindrance or accident of any kind. Our place, whose name...
Oswego Free Press (Oswego, NY), Wed., March 26, 1834 
TextNewspapers    Launch .- The schooner Winnebago belonging to Messrs. Bronson Crocker, will be launched from the ship yard in this village, on Tuesday next at two o'clock P.M. (owing to the unfavourable state of the weather not on Saturday, as stated in the Palladium .) She is commanded by Capt. J. Green,...
Oswego Palladium (Oswego, NY), May 14, 1834 
TextNewspapers    Lake Ontario Steam Boats. - The new British Steam-boat COBOURG, commenced her trips between Prescott and Niagara this week, and will stop at this Port both on her upward and downward passage. She will leave this Port for Niagara, touching at Cobourg and Toronto, every Friday evening; and for ...
Oswego Palladium (Oswego, NY), Dec. 3, 1834 
TextNewspapers    Shipwreck and Loss of Lives. - During the severe gale of Saturday night last, the schooner Jeanette, Capt. James King, arrived from Niagara with a cargo of 2700 bushels of Whet; and 2 or 300 bushels of Walnuts; and in attempting to enter our harbor, fell to the leeward of the gap between the...
Oswego Palladium (Oswego, NY), Wed., April 29, 1835 
TextNewspapers    Melancholy Occurrence. - On Thursday last, while seven semen, mostly belonging to the crew of the Schooner Emily , then lying in our harbor, were passing from one of our wharves to the Emily in a jolly boat, as they were going through the gap near the mouth of the river, the boat was ...
Oswego Palladium (Oswego, NY), Oct. 14, 1835 
TextNewspapers    The new schooner Albany was launched from the ship yard in this village yesterday afternoon. She is rated at 110 tons and is owned by Mr. A.T. Evertsen, of this village. ...
Oswego Palladium (Oswego, NY), Wed. , Nov. 25, 1835 
TextNewspapers    The Late Gale. - In addition to the particulars which we published in our last of the loss of life and property by the gale of the 11th inst. , we are enabled to give the following: The schooner Robert Bruce of Henderson, Jefferson co. , left Kingston, U. C. on the morning of the 11th bound...
Kingston Chronicle (Kingston, ON), May 26, 1838 
TextNewspapers    For the Chronicle and Gazette, THE GREAT BRITAIN AND SIR R. PEEL. Mr. Editor, On Wednesday the 16th instant, the Sir Robert Peel arrived from Prescott fully prepared for a trial of speed with the Britain; the Peel started at 8, instead of half-past 9, her usual hour, without giving any...
Democratic Free Press (Detroit, MI), June 20, 1838 
TextNewspapers    From the Washington Globe THE OUTRAGE UPON THE PEEL We publish to-day an account of the outrage committed on the British steamboat SIR ROBERT PEEL, within the American waters. From the great number of Canadian refugees on that frontier, inflamed by a sense of supposed injuries, it is ...
Democratic Free Press (Detroit, MI), June 27, 1838 
TextNewspapers    FROM THE FRONTIER (Correspondence of the Albany Argus ) Watertown, June 13, 1838 Dear Sir -- We have nothing of importance in regard to the affairs of the frontier, save the fact just communicated to me, that this morning , while the steamer Oneida was passing Wells' Island, Johnson,* ...
Oswego Palladium (Oswego, NY), May 8, 1839 
TextNewspapers    Disastrous Event. - On Saturday morning last, the schr. Atlas, of Dexter, Jefferson county, oh her passage to this port with a cargo of stone from Chaumont, when within about two miles of our village, was seen to founder and sink beneath the waves. The wind at the time, was blowing fresh from...
Oswego Palladium (Oswego, NY), May 8, 1839 
TextNewspapers    Launch . - On the 30th ult. was launched at Chaumont Bay, the Schooner R. C. Smead, of 100 tons burthen. She was built by Messrs. Silas and Asa Davis, the former of this village , and is named in honor of Lt. Smead of the U. S. Army, late superintendent of the public works in this village. She...
Cleveland Daily Herald (Cleveland, OH), May 11, 1839, page 2 
TextNewspapers  Cleveland Daily Herald (Cleveland, OH), May 11, 1839, page 2page 2  Column 1
Oswego County Whig (Oswego, NY), Tues., May 7, 1839 
TextNewspapers    Distressing Casualty . - Early on the morning of Saturday last, a small schooner was noticed by our citizens, about two miles off, making for this harbor. - The wind was then and had been blowing with some violence during the preceding night, and as the lake was rough and boisterous, some ...
Oswego Palladium (Oswego, NY), Wed. , Sept. 25, 1839 
TextNewspapers    During the gale which occurred on the 14th and 15th inst. , the schooner New York , of this port, owned by Messrs. Bronson and Crocker, was lost, and all on board probably perished. She was commanded by Captain George Carlisle, who is said to have been an excellent seaman and a worthy man, and...
Oswego Palladium (Oswego, NY), Wed. , Oct. 9, 1839 
TextNewspapers    Mr. Rose, of Marysburgh, whose letter we gave in our last, informs us that the body of the Captain of the ill-fated schooner New York , was found on Sunday morning, the 22nd inst. , there were $37 and his clearance papers from the port of Cleveland in his pocket. He was the same person who ...
Oswego Herald (Oswego, NY), May 25, 1840 
TextNewspapers    Travel and State of Trade. - Our harbor presents an animating scene by the almost constant arrival and departure of steam vessels and other craft. The steamboat Great Britain has taken her place in the daily line between this and Lewiston. Besides the American boats that ply daily between this...
Oswego County Whig (Oswego, NY), Wed. , Nov. 20, 1844 
TextNewspapers    Disasters on the Lake . - The Schooner Essex of this port, owned by Doolittle Mills & Co. and the Captain, with a cargo of wheat from Sandusky, in attempting to beat out of the Niagara river on Wednesday night last, carried away her jib and main gaff, and went ashore at the mouth of the ...
Steamboat Collision on Lake Ontario 
TextNewspapers  "Steamboat Collision on Lake Ontario," Republican (Baldwinsville, NY), April 20, 1846  Steamboat Collision on Lake Ontario. - As the steamers Sovereign and Transit were coming out of the Toronto Harbor together Tuesday the Transit in order to prevent Sovereign from passing, endeavored to run her upon the shore. The Sovereign thereupon steered directly for the Transit, striking her...
Rochester Daily Advertiser (Rochester, NY), Thursday, June 8, 1846 
TextNewspapers    Launch of the "Genesee Chief" _____ The splendid new steamer, "Genesee Chief," recently built at the landing, will be launched today at 3 o'clock. Carriages will be in readiness to convey passengers to and from the river. After the boat glides into her future element, she will be towed to the...
Oswego Palladium (Oswego, NY), Dec. 1, 1846 
TextNewspapers    Gale on Lake Ontario The Schooner Minerva, with 6,200 bushels of Wheat, and the W. H. Merritt, a Canadian Vessel, without loading, went ashore at Braddock's Bay. The former will be a total loss. Likewise the Cleveland, at Irondequoit Bay, with 250 bushels salt. Total loss. 1,000 bushels Wheat,...
Buffalo Commercial Advertiser (Buffalo, NY), 1846 
TextNewspapers    NAVIGATION OF THE LAKES. "I HAVE noticed several communications in your paper recently...
Oswego Palladium (Oswego, NY), Tuesday, May 11, 1847 
TextNewspapers    New Vessels. Three new vessels were launched from the ship-yard of Mr. Weeks on Thursday last. They were the Pathfinder, the Mackinaw, and the Comely. The former is one of the largest and finest vessels ever built at this port. She measures 140 feet in length, and will carry 450 tons. She is...
Oswego Palladium (Oswego, NY), April 18, 1848 
TextNewspapers    H. Fitzhugh & Co., proprietors of the schooner Cuba, which was run down and sunk on Lake Ontario on the night of the 6th of May, 1847, by the Propeller Genesee Chief, and with her cargo of wheat lost, have just recovered a judgment of $3,054.06 against the owners of the last named vessel. ...
Oswego Palladium (Oswego, NY), Tues., May 11, 1847 
TextNewspapers    New Vessels. Three new vessels were launched from the ship yard of Mr. Weeks on Thursday last. - They were the Pathfinder, the Mackinaw, and the Comely. The former is one of the largest and finest vessels ever built at this port. She measures 140 feet in length, and will carry about 450 ...
Oswego Palladium (Oswego, NY), Tuesday, April 25, 1848 
TextNewspapers    Wreck of the Niagara. _____ The steamer Niagara, than which there are few finer vessels in the world, left this port for Rochester on the morning of the 18th, under the command of Capt. Childs, with some seventy passengers, among who were a number of ladies. The wind was blowing fresh, (we ...
Detroit Free Press (Detroit, MI), June 21, 1848 
TextNewspapers    THE STEAMER NIAGARA. - This vessel that went ashore early this spring near the mouth of the Genesee River on Lake Ontario, after laying seven weeks has at last been raised. The American says: "She was taken into the harbor between the piers; but in the course of the night her pumps became...
Oswego Commercial Times (Oswego, NY), Sept. 25, 1848 
TextNewspapers    Storm Grounds Three Schooners In attempting to come in during the blow of Saturday night, the Brigs Mahoning and Paragon, and the Schooner President, all from Lake Erie loaded with wheat, went ashore in the East Harbor. The wind blowing a gale from the west drove them from their course while...
Oswego Commercial Times (Oswego, NY), Sept. 26, 1848 
TextNewspapers    Northwestern Insurance Company's Home Office Issues Advice to Vessel Masters Captain Rounds, of the North Western Insurance Office, has sent us the following directions to Captains of the Lakes, with reference to entering our Harbor. Capt. R. is familiar with the subject, and we take ...

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