Maritime History of the Great Lakes

Nancy (Schooner), 1789

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1791:-- Two sloops, each of about 40 tons burden, named the BEAVER and INDUSTRY had been added to the small fleet of merchant ships, built for the navigation of lakes Erie and Huron, and the Association of Montreal merchants, known as the North West Company, sent John Richardson, one of their numbers to supervise the construction at Detroit of a larger and notably well built schooner, which was named the NANCY.
      Memorials of Fort Erie and Early Navigation of Lake Erie
      by Colonel Cruckshank p. 69.

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Newspaper
Item Type
Clippings
Notes
building, Detroit
Date of Original
1789
Subject(s)
Schooners
Nancy (Schooner)
Local identifier
McN.E.10429
Language of Item
English
Donor
William R. McNeil
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Nancy (Schooner), 1789