Excerpt from Papers Concerning Early Navigation on the Great Lakes He was born in the year 1800, but of the place of his birth I am not informed. Nor do I know anything concerning his childhood. But in isi5 he was a hand on board the schooner Black Snake, of about twenty-five tons burthen, under Captain James Wilkeson, an uncle. In 1817, when only seventeen years Of age, he was promoted to the command of the Black Snake. The next year, 1818, he became captain of the schooner Pilot, making trips between Maumee river and ...
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Excerpt from Papers Concerning Early Navigation on the Great Lakes He was born in the year 1800, but of the place of his birth I am not informed. Nor do I know anything concerning his childhood. But in isi5 he was a hand on board the schooner Black Snake, of about twenty-five tons burthen, under Captain James Wilkeson, an uncle. In 1817, when only seventeen years Of age, he was promoted to the command of the Black Snake. The next year, 1818, he became captain of the schooner Pilot, making trips between Maumee river and Buffalo. From this time he was in command of various sailing vessels (among them the Eagle of ninety tons burthen, which will be often mentioned in these until 1835. Meanwhile, he had (soon, indeed, after the war of 1812 - I5) made Perrysburg, Ohio, his home, and he maintained his resi dence there during the remainder of his life. In 1835, he took command of the steamboat Commodore Perry, Of which he was captain and part owner for ten years. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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