January 4, 1831. Albany Argus.
The Evening Journal states that the sloop "Detroit", which was sunk last spring opposite West Point, in 170 feet water, has finally been raised, and a part of her valuable cargo already taken out.

March 24, 1831. Catskill Recorder. Catskill Line. "Bucktast". "Superior". "Shakespeare". The subscribers tender their thanks to the publick for the former liberal patronage conferred on them, and respectfully solicit a continuances of it. One of these vessels will leave CATSKILL on THURSDAY, and another NEW YORK on FRIDAY, of every week. The third Sloop will sail from CATSKILL and NEW YORK on such days as may best promote the mutual interests of the publick and subscribers. Orders respecting produce and merchandise committed to their care, will be faithfully attended to Penfield, Day & Co.

April 29, 1831 Albany Argus
Imprudent Leap - An overgrown Johnny Raw, who would measure six feet two in the stockings, made his first appearance here a few days ago, for the double purpose of disposing of a load of lumber, and seeing the wonders of the town. Having never in his life fallen in with any water craft, larger than a canoe, his first desire was to see a ship, sloop, horseboat or steamboat, it was all one to him. He drove directly to the wharf - a vessel was swinging out a few yards in the stream, by her cable, and the surface of the water between her and the wharf covered with a mass of floating scum, chips and rubbish collected by the eddy. He paid no attention to this, but with his eyes fixed on the vessel, walked to the edge of the wharf, and jumped off, a distance of about five feet, to take a nearer view; down he went, and the scum closed over him! In a moment more he reappeared, fortunately within reach of the dock - he seized hold, and crawled out dripping and shivering with wet and cold. "Oh dear," said he, "I thought it was ground." [Catskill Recorder]

April 29, 1831 Albany Argus
The Green County Advertiser states, that on Friday week, during the gale, Andrew McIntosh, one of the hands on board the sloop "Syren", of Albany fell from the mast head and was drowned. The same paper states, that on Sunday, a sloop of 8 or 10 tons, having on her stern "Industry, of Great Barrington," drifted ashore at Stuyvesant. One man was struggling in the water, bur drowned before he could be reached. The boat is in possession of Mr. Jesse Ackerly, Stuyvesant, above Coxsackie ferry.

May 5, 1831 Newburgh Telegraph
For Freight or Charter. The Sloop "Mentor", Capt. Henry Bailley, will make trips on freight or charter, to any place required on the river, on moderate term. This arrangement offers great convenience to persons wishing freight, in small or large quantities carried to, or brought from any place along the river. Orders left at the Ferry House, Newburgh, will be attended to without delay. 

 June 3, 1831 Albany Argus
​Old Line.
Canal, Capt. L.W. Brainard
Utica. E. Ford
Erie, J.L. Hyatt
Governor, E. Ford, jun.
Ohio, B.C. Brainard.
One of the above sloops will leave New York and Albany every Thursday and Saturday. They are all insured and of the first class. All property will be carefully delivered as directed, or forwarded to any part of the United States or the Canadas, at the lowest rate, without delay. For freight apply to the captain on board, or to their agents. Dibblee & Brown, S.P. Jermain, Albany. John H. Mabbett, New York

July 29, 1831 Albany Argus
Melancholy Accident. About 12 o'clock yesterday as the sloop "Shepherd", of Cortland Town, was proceeding down the North river with a party of pleasure, when opposite the Chemical Factory, Jersey City, the skiff attached to the sloop went adrift, by the breaking of the painter, and the man at the helm, in putting the sloop about, neglected to give warning, in consequence of which Mrs. Ann Adams, (wife of Mr. George Adams, of Bloomingdale,) and her child two years old, were knocked overboard by the boom and drowned. Every exertion was made for the recovery of the bodies without effect. [N.Y. Daily Sentinel]

August 5, 1831 Albany Argus
From the N.Y. Standard of July 28. Steamboat Case. On the 5th April last, we published the result of a trial in the superior court before Judge Oakley, in which Stephen Miller was plaintiff, and Messrs J.C. & R.L. Stevens, defendants; the verdict then rendered was $250 damages for the plaintiff. The first verdict has been set aside as will be seen by the report below, which, as an act of justice for the parties defendant, we copy from yesterday's Courier and Enquirer. Superior Court - Steam Boats Before his Honor Chief Justice Jones.
Stephen Miller versus J.C. Stevens and Robert L. Stevens.

This was an action brought by the plaintiff, as owner of the sloop "Montgomery", to recover damages for injuries sustained by her in 1829; from a collision with the steamboat "North America", of which boat the defendants are proprieters.

It appeared that the "North America", under the command of the second or assistant captain, left Newburgh on a certain evening for New York. On her passage down the pilot kept her close to the eastern shore, in consequence of the state of the wind and tide. The persons on board observed two sloops sailing up the river from New York with the wind and tide in their favor.

One of these sloops passed about 300 or 400 yards west of the boat; the other, which proved to be the "Montgomery", was still nearer the western shore, but when she was about one quarter of a mile from the "North America", in a diagonal direction, she was struck by a flaw of wind, which obliged her to luff round and sail towards the east by a circular sweep. The persons on the look out on board the "N. America" observed the difficulty under which the sloop labored, and hallowed out to he persons navigating her to beat off, but the sloop still advanced rapidly before the squall towards the boat. The second pilot, who was in charge of the helm, instantly ordered the engine to be stopped, and then directed the boat to be put back, but so quickly did the sloop advance, that these precautions did not avail., the sloop struck against the boat and went aground. The action was here brought for the consequent damage sustained by the sloop.

The plaintiffs rested their claim for damages, on the grounds, that steamboats, as they are supposed always to have wind and tide in their favor, must be so navigated as to prevent their collision with other vessels that are not so much favored in these particulars. Next, that  the steamboat was not properly equipped, inasmuch as the captain was not on board, nor was the first pilot on deck when the likelihood arose that the boat and sloop would come in collision.

In reply to these grounds, it was testified on behalf of the defendants, that every possible precaution was used on board the boat, that the state of the tide obliged her to be kept near the eastern shore; and when the danger was observed, to steer to the shore would be to steer towards certain destruction; that by steering west, the probability of a collision would have been greater, and that the only movement likely to evade danger was the retrograde movement which was made, although not with sufficient success giving the velocity of a steam boat a direction contrary to that in which it was before; and the rapidity with which the sloop sailed on. They also showed that the persons in the sloop, kept their helm hard down, when they should have kept it up. If the latter course was pursued, the collision might have been avoided, or at least the injury resulting from it would not have been so great. The first mate was in the kitchen on deck and rushed out when the alarm was given.

The Court in charging the Jury told them, that if they believed the persons on board the boat had been guilty of any negligence, the verdict should be against the defendants, even though they believed the persons on board the sloop were guilty of negligence also. This rule he considered necessary, in consequence of the great advantages steamboats have over all other kinds of vessels.

As to the absence of the captain, this he considered immaterial , as the navigation of steamboats is confided to the pilots, not to him. The absence of the first pilot from the wheel, was also immaterial, as it was impossible he could be night and day there; this, however, was only applicable, where, in this case, a second pilot was on board and in charge of the helm.

The Jury returned a verdict for the defendants.

August 12, 1831 - Albany Argus
Sloop Upset. A few miles below Coxsackie the "North America" passed a sloop, upset, lying upon her side, her mast out of water. It is understood to have been run foul of by the "Ohio" on Monday night. No lives were lost, and the sloop was empty.​

December 9, 1831 - Albany Argus
Amongst the causes tried at the court of oyer and terminer, held in the city of Hudson last week, was an action brought by James Vanderpoel, Benjamin Butler and others, owners of the sloop "Martha Ann", of Kinderhook, against John and Robert Gilchrist, of Albany, owners of the sloop "Lafayette", for the recovery off damages, occasioned by the running down, or capsizing of the "Martha Ann" by the "Lafayette": damages for the plaintiffs $1098.

 Newburgh Telegraph March 8, 1832
TUESDAY & FRIDAY STAGES. From Oakley &. Davis' Dock, Newburgh, for 1832,
THE STEAMBOAT PROVIDENCE Samuel R. Logan, Master,
WILL leave the above dock every Tuesday & Friday evenings during the ensuing season, and will leave New-York every Monday and Thursday evenings. This boat has been so altered as to accommodate the Freighting business. She will this season carry Freight and Passengers.— The accommodations for both are equal to any other in the vicinity, and terms as favorable.

THE SLOOP FAVORITE WILL be kept in employ from the same dock for the purpose of carrrying heavy Freight, such as Timber, Lumber, Grain, Plaster, etc. and such other Freight as may offer. — In consequence of the short time all steamboats have in market, an accommodation of this kind is rendered very desirable. The unsettled accounts will be left with Oakley & Davis as usual, for settlement.
OAKLEY & DAVIS WILL keep for sale their usual supply of Dry Goods and Groceries, together with a supply of salt, plaster, fish, tar, &o. They purchase all kinds of Grain, for which the highest cash price will invariably be given.
  
Accommodation line, FOR 1832 From B. Carpenter's Dock, Newburgh.
The New and Fast Sailing Steam-Boat WM.YOUNG,
CHARLES HALSTEAD, Master. BENJAMIN'.CARPENTER, & CO. Si Owners,
WILL leave Newburgh every WEDNESDAY and SATURDAY, and New-York every TUESDAY and FRIDAY Evening, during (he Season, and will carry Freight and Passengers as low as from any other establishment from the village.
Horses, Carriages, Stock, and Freight of every description, can be well accommodated. The proprietors believing that the interest of the farmer has been injured by three steam bosfls sailing on the same day, in consequence of which large quantities of Fresh Butter, Stock, etc. arrive in New-York at the same time, which frequently injures the market; and conceiving that the same objections do not exist against sailing on SATURDAY, with.a steamboat, making her passage in six hours, that have formerly existed against sloops, have concluded to take the above days, and hope from the well known character of the boat and their utmost endeavors to accommodate, to merit a share of the public patronage. The wharf will be improved by an additional store house early in the spring.
BENJAMIN CARPENTER & CO.
OFFER for sale at their store a general assortment of Dry Goods, Groceries, Hard and Hollow-Ware. Also, Salt, Plaster, Fish, Pork, Flour, Iron, Steel, Coal, Tar, Pitch, Rosin. Saw-mill and cross cut Saws, Machine Cards, Indigo, Dye Stuffs, Clover and Timothy Seed, Lamp Oil, etc. They will pay the highest price for Grain and Lumber.
   F 1,000 Cast Iron Ploughs and Castings for sale wholesale and retail.

STEAM-BOAT NOTICE.
THE "Farmers' Association" are now ready to contract for the Towing of Vessels on the Hudson River, and Intend to start their Steam Boat, the CHANCELLOR LIVINGSTON, for Freight and Passengers to and from Newburgh to the City of New-York, on or about the 20th of this month instant.
NOTICE—The subscribers to the capital stock of the Farmers' Association are hereby required to pay Ten Dollars on each share so subscribed by them, to ,John Leveridge, Esq. no. 145 Cherry-street, New-York, or to Walter Case, Esq. in the Village of Newburgh, on or before the 10th inst.— By order of the board.  J. HASBROUCK, Secretary.
NOTICE.—That an Election for five Directors to manage the concerns of the Farmers Association for the ensuing year, will be held at the Tavern of Isaac Shultz, in the village of Newburgh, on Saturday the tenth of this month instant, between the hours of 12 and 3 o'clock of that day. J. HASBROUCK, Secretary.

March 31, 1832 Workingman's Advocate.
Opening of the Hudson. The long-looked for opening of the Hudson has arrived. The first vessel from Albany, with this cheering information, was the sloop General Trotter, Capt. M'Cay, which arrived at 4 o'clock yesterday morning, having left Albany the preceeding day. The steamboat Constitution also arrived yesterday morning from Albany, full of passengers, among whom we see many northern and western merchants, who have come in for their supply of goods. We may now expect to witness much life among men of business. - Gazette. 

April 12, 1832. Newburgh Telegraph.
Our citizens will be gratified to learn that the Newburgh Whaling Company have purchased the fine ship, Portland, of about three hundred tons burthen, a fast sailer and little more than one year old, for fifteen thousand two hundred dollars.  She will be fitted out with all possible despatch by the company for her first voyage.  Previous to her departure it is said we shall have the pleasure of seeing this beautiful vessel at Newburgh, at which place her crew will be selected.  Many enterprising and worthy young men of our village and its vicinity have already made application to the company for employment, and it is understood places on board the Portland, as well as all other ships fitted out by the Newburgh Whaling Company, will be assigned to young men of Orange County and the neighborhood of Newburgh, so far as they may be found competent to fill them, in preference to any others.

April 19, 1832. Newburgh Telegraph
NEW FREIGHTING ESTABLISHMENT: TUESDAY STAGE, SLOOP ECLIPSE. E. CASE, MASTER,
Will leave Newburgh every Tuesday and New-.. York every Saturday evenings, during the Season.
THE subscriber tenders his thanks for past favours in the above business, and flatters himself that his extensive acquaintance in the country, and in the city, together with the strictest attention to the interest and accommodation of those who may entrust their business to his care, will ensure to his present undertaking, a liberal portion of patronage.   The above sloop has a large and commodious cabin, having twenty-five Berths, which are fitted up with Beds and Bedding in the best order, for those who may wish to take passage in the good old way of plain sailing.

Satisfied that the interest of the Farmer is materially injured by the shortness of time allowed in market by the Steam-boats, making two trips per week, the subscriber does not commence business without [illeg.] that there are many Freighters in the country whom experience has taught to think with him, that the old mode of conveyance, which allows sufficient time in Market to dispose of the cargo to the best advantage, and is subject to no blow-ups nor break-downs, is the best mode, and who will be pleased with the present opportunity of returning to it again. He would also solicit a portion of the Freight and Trade of those merchants, of the Village who justly complain that their interests are injured by a monopoly of business on the part of the Steam Boat owners. They have now an opportunity of taking one step on a return to old usages.

Having made arrangements with Captain SETH BELKNAP, the STORE HOUSE will be under his superintendance, where Freighters can call, or send written orders, and receive returns at all times, in the absence of the Captain; New-burgh April 1832. ELISHA CASE.

N. B. The Store-House is in good order for the reception of Grain, which will be taken in free of storage when il is intended as freight for the Eclipse. Merchants wishing to keep Salt, Fish, Pork, Flour, or any other heavy articles, can have the privilege of storing the same there and having it delivered out in any quantity which they may direct, without charge for storage.

December 19, 1832 - Commercial Advertiser (New York, New York)
RIOT AND ASSAULT. Fifteen respectable individuals, principally Captains of North River sloops, were taken into custody the night before last, by Mr. Fisher, the captain of the first district watch, aided by a number of his watchmen, and handed over in the morning to the police magistrates for their disposal. They were taken about 11 o'clock at night, in the house of Mrs. Mary Bowen, who keep a notorious house of ill fame at 112 Leonard Street, near the Collect, whither they went, as is alleged, for the purpose of bestowing a coat of tar and feathers, upon the person of a Mr. William Haggerty, an inmate of the house and friend and companion of the lady.

The cause assigned for this premediated outrage upon the person of Mr. Haggerty, or as he is familiarly known, Captain Haggerty, is said to be, his conduct towards his wife, a virtuous and amiable woman, who he deserted i Albany, to become the paramour of Mrs. Mary Bowen, the old bawd in whose house he has constantly resided for the past month or six weeks.

It appears that Captain Haggerty, who was formerly the captain and owner of the sloop Ransom, plying between this city and Albany, contracted an intimacy with Mrs. Bowen about a year since, which was followed up in the course of the year by the sale of his sloop - an abandonment of his wife -- and finally his becoming a boarder in the house, whither he took about a month since, his three children, a boy and two girls. Indignant at his conduct, several sloop captains raised a fund, with which an application was made to the Vice Chancellor on behalf of the wife for the custody of the children. About a week since, on the day appointed for the hearing of the case, Haggerty attended with his counsel, but the counsel employed for the wife not being in court, the Vice Chancellor on the exparte application of Haggerty, decreed the custody of the children to him, with an understanding that for the future they would be sent to Troy, where they were to be boarded and educated. The Vice Chancellor's room, together with the avenues of the Hall, were thronged by many who seemed to take a deep interest in the question, and expressed great sympathy for the wife, around whom the children clung,  with cries for protection, which the distracted mother was unable to afford them, and which only tended to increase the public indignation against the unnatural father, who had caused their separation. Determined to avenge the injury done the wife, the individuals arrested, aided by from twenty to thirty others, made an arrangement, as is said, to take the person of Haggerty, and inflict upon him a coat of tar and feathers. Monday night was the time appointed for the purpose, and with a bucket of tar they proceeded to the house of Mrs. Bowen, where Capt. Fisher, with a posse of watchmen was stationed inside to receive them, with Captain Haggerty, armed with an axe on the landing of the stairs, for as it now turns out, the purpose of their visit and the time they were to make it, was communicated to Mrs. Bowen in sufficient season for her to obtain the aid of the watch. On knocking at the door it was opened by Mrs. Bowen, when the persons arrested rushed in, but had scarcely made their way into the room before they were met by the watchmen, who knocked several of them down with their clubs, and secured the whole. The complaint of Mrs. Bowen was taken by the magistrates, as was also that of Capt. Fisher, who alleged that he was struck by one of the number, and they were severally directed to find surety in the sum of five hundred dollars for their appearance at the next Court of Sessions, to answer the complaints. In the course of the forenoon they all produced the necessary surety, and on payment of the office and prison fees, amounting to three dollars, twelve and a half cents for each individual, they were discharged. Several of them were badly hurt in the affray, and one in particular received a very bad, if not dangerous wound on the head, but whether it was caused by a blow or a fall is not distinctly known - Courier

March 27, 1833 - Independence. Poughkeepsie, New York
STEAM AND TOW-BOAT LINE.
The subscribers, grateful for the patronage bestowed upon them the past season, would respectfully inform their friends and the public generally, that they will comence (sic)  towing as soon as the navigation opens, and will run to and from New-York in the following order:
THE STEAM-BOAT "HUDSON" WILL TAKE THE SARATOGA IN TOW, from Poughkeepsie, every TUESDAY, at 5 o'clock, P.M. - from New-York, every SATURDAY, at 5 o'clock, P.M. Passage on board steamboat $1, on board tow-boat 75 cents. Meals extra.

​The "Hudson" will also leave our dock with freight and passengers FOR KINGSTON and the intermediate places, every Thursday and Sunday mornings, immediately on her arrival from New-York, and from Kingston, every Tuesday and Friday,​ at 2 o'clock, P.M.

Sloop for Albany. A Sloop will leave our dock for Albany every THURSDAY, at 2 o'clock, P.M.
The "Hudson" and "Saratoga" have undergone thorough repairs, and for comfort and convenience, for freight or passengers, are not surpassed by any boats on the river. Passengers going on board either of the above boats can secure to themselves good berths, a comfortable night's rest, and arrive in New-York early next morning. Carriages will always be in readiness to convey passengers to and from the boat. U. Gregory & Co. Poughkeepsie (NY), March 15, 1833

August 15, 1833. Newburgh Telegraph
On Saturday last, about nine o'clock in the evening. Captain Simeon Deyo of the sloop Phoenix, and son of Joseph Deyo, Esq. of New Paltz, late Sheriff of this county, accidentally fell or stept overboard from his sloop while passing from the quarter to the main deck on her passage up the river, about four miles from New York and was drowned.

April 17, 1835. North River Times
Nyack, April 15, 1835.
Mr. Wells, —I have only time to say, that the Sloop Samsondale, building by Mr.
Felter of this place, for Messrs. Felter & Peck of your village, was launched to-
day, at high tide. She is a splendid Sloop, of about 100 tons burthen, and glided
in her descent from the ways many hundred yards from the shore. You may
expect her up in a few days. Yours in haste.​