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Palladium and Chronicle (Oswego, NY), May 26, 1830 
TextNewspapers    Lake Ontario Steam-Boats. - By reference to an advertisement in our columns it will be seen that the Steamboat Ontario has commenced her regular trips between this port and Niagara, via Rochester, and to Ogdensburg via Sacket's Harbor and Cape Vincent. The Martha Ogden will soon commence her ...
Palladium and Chronicle (Oswego, NY), May 26, 1830 
TextNewspapers    Advertisement
Palladium and Chronicle (Oswego, NY), June 2, 1830 
TextNewspapers    Weedsport May 12 Canal Steam-Boat. - A canal boat propelled by steam power passed this village on Sunday evening last. The boat was built at Rochester, and towed to Utica where she received on board her steam apparatus. Her propelling wheels are at the stern, and judging from the majestic ...
Oswego Palladium (Oswego, NY), Aug. 25, 1830 
TextNewspapers    SEAMEN. On the 18th August inst. a meeting was held in this village, for the purpose of taking into consideration the contemplated formation of a Seamen's Friend Society, for Lake Ontario. Capt. Bill, of the Schr. Winnebago, was chosen Chairman, and Capt. L.C. Hugunin, of the Schr. Ontario, ...
Oswego Palladium (Oswego, NY), May 11, 1831 
TextNewspapers    The Steamboat Charles Carroll of Sackets. - This beautiful vessel was Launched from the ways into her native element, on Monday last: The Launch was a fine one - the novelty of Launching a vessel, with a Steam Engine in complete operation, was witnessed by a very numerous concourse of people...
Oswego Palladium (Oswego, NY), Tues. ,  May 11, 1831. 
TextNewspapers    Disaster. - About 8 o'clock on Tuesday evening last, the schooner Lucinda belonging to Smith & Merrick, was capsized in a squall near the mouth of the river St. Lawrence, the Capt. and crew, 5 or 6 in number and one passenger got upon the side of the vessel, in which perilous condition they ...
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., Nov.  14, 1832 
TextNewspapers    (From the Sackets Harbor Courier ). Wreck of the Steam-Boat Martha Ogden. - On the night of the 12th inst. as the Martha Ogden was on her way from Oswego to this port, she sprang a leak, and the pump failing, the men took to bailing out the water with buckets. - She however, continued to...
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 Free Press (Oswego, NY), Wed., April 17, 1833 
TextNewspapers    Launched - On Monday last the new and beautiful Schooner, built by our enterprising fellow citizens, Messrs. C.B. Aspinwall Co. She bears the name of our publick spirited fellow-citizen, Llewellyn Jones, which circumstance, while it is flattering to him, is commendable in her owners, and ...
Oswego Palladium (Oswego, NY), July 1, 1833 
TextNewspapers    The American Sea Serpent in Lake Ontario. - Our office has been favored with a visit from Captain Abijah Kellogg of the schooner Polythermus, of Sacket's arrived this morning from Rochester. This gentleman has related to us such a tale of wonder, a tale so incredible, that we scruple some,...
Oswego Palladium (Oswego, NY), Nov. 13, 1833 
TextNewspapers    Steam Boat Disasters on Lake Ontario. - During the late gale, the steamboat St. George broke one of her shafts, and was towed into port by the Great Britain. The steamboat John By, which plied between York and the head of the Lake, was driven ashore near the Credit, and it is feared will...
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), Dec. 4, 1833 
TextNewspapers    On the morning of the 12th inst. the schr. Three Brothers, Capt. Stevenson, sailed from Pultneyville, freighted with wheat and supplies and cider, bound for Oswego, and is supposed to have been wrecked between 10 and 12 o'clock on the same day - nothing definite having been heard since, from...
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    Steamboat Oswego. - The new Steamboat Oswego, on her second trip, we regret to say, was run ashore about four miles to the west of this port on the night of the 12th. the passengers were landed with little inconvenience. We are glad to learn she will be got off without difficulty, having ...
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), May 28, 1834 
TextNewspapers    The Steamboat Oswego . - We are happy to state that this vessel, which was stranded in the gale of the 12th inst., had been got off with very little injury. The owners, we are informed, are indebted to the skill and judgment of our young fellow citizen, Mr. John McNair, for the effectual and ...
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), April 29, 1835 
TextNewspapers    LAUNCH. - The new schooner Independence was launched at Manwarring's landing near the mouth of the Salmon River on the 15th instant, precisely at the minute previously appointed. Although it was but a miniature representation of what is sometimes witnessed at some of our Navy Yards, yet it ...
Democratic Free Press (Detroit, MI), May 13, 1835 
TextNewspapers    THE LAKE SERPENT Who has not heard of the enormous serpent or snake of Lake Superior? -- If we mistake not, this frightful monster has been occasionally mentioned by different writers and travellers as inhabiting those mighty waters; nor can we imagine what should now have induced his ...
Oswego Palladium (Oswego, NY), July 29, 1835 
TextNewspapers    We notice that two or three new schooners are already on the stocks - it is to be hoped that others will be commenced soon: we have not vessels enough to meet the wants of our commerce; and there is every reason to believe that our commerce will be double, if not quadruple, next year to what it...
Oswego Palladium (Oswego, NY), Aug. 26, 1835 
TextNewspapers    Gale on the Lakes - This has been the most extraordinary summer experienced for many years - is thought by our old citizens to be the coldest since the well remembered summer of 1816. We have not along the lake shore been annoyed by summer frosts, as has been the case in the middle of the...
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), Nov. 18, 1835 
TextNewspapers    The Late Gale - On the night of the 11th inst. a severe gale occurred on Lake Ontario which has proved very disastrous in the loss of life and property. The schooner Medora, owned by Mr. T. Wyman of this village, commanded by Capt. Morse, and bound from Cleveland to this port, with a cargo of...
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...
Brockville Recorder (Brockville, ON), June 24, 1836 
TextNewspapers    A letter to the editor: A man was fired who would not swear that he would vote for Jonas Jones in the up coming election. "I have been employed by Mr. Jones on a steamboat building by him. " signed Frances Hackett. ...
Kingston Spectator (Kingston, ON), April 13, 1837 
TextNewspapers    The Sir Robert Peel - We have had much satisfaction, in examining the beautiful Steam Boat, Sir Robert Peel, now being built at the shipyard in this Town. She is expected to be in full operation on the first of June; of which, from present appearances, there can be little doubt. The cabins are...
Brockville Recorder (Brockville, ON), Thursday, April 27, 1837 
TextNewspapers    Launch . - We understand that the splendid new steamboat which has been some time in construction at this place, by Jonas Jones, Esq. and others, will be launched on Friday the 5th of May next, at 12 o'clock, noon. This Boat, we understand, is to bear the name of the distinguished Tory Baronet,...
Brockville Recorder (Brockville, ON), Thursday, May 11, 1837 
TextNewspapers    Launch . - The Steam Boat Sir Robert Peel, was launched from the Ship yard in this town, on Friday last, agreeable to an intimation given by us. She at first moved slowly on her ways for some twelve or fifteen feet, when her motion accelerated, and she made the final plunge in fine style, ...

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