February 9, 1821 - Albany Gazette (Albany, New York)
The North river is clear of ice nearly to Tarry-Town, about 30 miles above the city, and many sloops have arrived with wood; excellent Hickory could be bought on Saturday at 25 to 26s. The passage through Long Island Sound remained closed yesterday. On Saturday the ice was so strong a few miles above Hell Gate, that persons crossed upon it. Should the weather continue mild, it is probable the ice will soon give way. ​

March 13, 1821 - Rhode Island American and Advertiser (Providence, Rhode Island
​For New York, Hudson and Albany. The Packet Sloop SALLY, now laying at Samuel Godfrey's Wharf, having part of her freight engaged, will sail in 10 days. For the remainder of freight or passage, apply to Peleg Hull, or Abraham Davis.

March 21, 1821 - Connecticut Courier (Bridgeport, Connecticut)
Catskill Packet. The Sloop MARY will sail for Catskill on the 10th of March next and continue to run from Bridgeport to Catskill, through the season. For Freight or Passage, having good accommodations apply at the stores of A.& W. Hawley & Co or Isaac Burrough.

March 24, 1821 - Providence Patriot (Providence, Rhode Island)
​For Hudson and Albany, The sloop Nancy, Joseph Spelman, master, will sail in eight days, for freight or passage, apply to the Master on board, laying at Packet-wharf, or to Royal Parnum

June 27, 1821 - Connecticut Courier (Bridgeport, Connecticut)
The Sloop MARY will sail for Catskill on the 10th of March next, and continue to run from Bridgeport to Catskill, through the season. For Freight or Passage, having good accommodations, apply at the stores of A&W Hawley & Co. or Isaac Burroughs. Bridgeport.
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July 17, 1821 - New York Spectator (New York, New York)
Accident - A small sloop, the Mary Ann, belonging to Capt. Waters, of Poughkeepsie, bound up, was capsized by a flaw of wind, yesterday, off Low Point Landing a few miles above Newburgh; the owner was on board. We have not heard the fate of those on board; but at sunset last evening, the sloop was observed righted, alongside of another sloop that hove too to assist her.

September 4, 1821 - Spectator (New York, New York)
Coroners Report.—On the 1st September, and inquest was held on the body of Francis Dennison who had been knocked overboard from a sloop at the foot of Walnut street, by his wife Sarah, when he was drowned. A quarrel had taken place between Bridget Plato and Sarah Dennison, on board, of said sloop, and no with Devoe, as is stated in the Daily Advertiser of this morning. The corner reported the above statement of facts, which is laid before the Court of Sessions. ​

September 6, 1821 - New York Gazette & General Advertiser (New York, New York)
Police - On Tuesday, Daniel Slater, commanding a sloop with peaches, lying near Washington Market, was brought before the Police, charged with an assault and battery on Henry Johnson, a black boy. It appears that Johnson, among other boys, was on board the sloop, watching opportunities to steal fruit, or, as it was said, he was looking at a shark; however, Salter, the master of the sloop, in a fit of passion, picket up the boy and threw him into the river; fortunately, the little fellow could swim, and was taken out without being injured, or Salter would have been in jeopardy of his life. He was bound over to answer for the offence at the present term. - Nat. Advo.

April 1, 1823 Evening Post (New York, New York)
​Melancholy accident. It becomes our painful duty to record the sudden death of Mr. David Dunham, merchant, of this city. He was a passenger in the steam boat Richmond, from Albany, until she broke the shaft to her wheel, when he, with a number of other gentlemen, went on board of the sloop Criterion, Capt. Mellon, of Hudson. They had proceeded as far as Verplanck's Point, when they were met by a heavy squall about two o'clock yesterday afternoon, which obliged them to take in sail. Mr. Dunham was on the quarter deck lending a hand in securing the mainsail, when a sudden flaw filled the leech of the sail which he had hold of, and swept him overboard. A sloop in company at the time and near by, threw two lines to him, one of which he grasped at, but missed it.  The long boat belonging to the Criterion immediately put off to his assistance, and had nearly reached him, notwithstanding the violence of the wind and the heavy swell of the sea, but when within five yards of him his exertions became exhausted, and he sunk to rise no more. A reward of two hundred and fifty dollars is offered by his friends, for the recovery of his body.

April 1, 1823 Spectator (New York, New York)
Monday Evening, March 31.
Foul and fierce All Winter drives along the darken'd air
​We never recollect to have witnessed so severe a month of March as the present. It is now the last day - the time at which in ordinary seasons the green fields appear, and the feathered songsters of nature "make vocal every spray." The weather during the whole month has been extremely variable, and the greater part of the time very chilly and cold, if not severely so. We had a few days of pleasant weather last week, and Saturday was soo clear and mild, as to afford promise that the earth would soon rise again as from the grave, into fresh life and beauty. The He who rides upon the whirlwind and directs the storm, has ordered it otherwise. Instead of the "vegetable world bursting into life, and waving its hues, adn spreading its fragrance around," the earth is again thickly clad in the dreary vestments of winter. Yesterday morning, about 9 o'clock, commenced by far the severest storm that we have experienced since January, 1821. The snow fell gently at first, but it increased as a driving wind arose from the E.N.E., which by 12 o'clock blew almost a hurricane, and the atmosphere was literally darkened by the snow. Such was the quantity, that had it not be moist, by the aid of the wind it would have completely blocked up the streets. The storm continued furiously through the day, and without much abatement during the night also. Towards morning the wind shifted to the N.N.W., and the snow continued to fall until this morning. What added greatly to the inconvenience of a large body of our citizens, was an alarm of fire at two o'clock, and another at about four. The first was a false alarm, and the authors of it ought to be made to travel at least a twelvemonth upon the Stepping-Mill. Such mischievous tricks are wicked at all times; but to compel twelve hundred men to turn out and drag their heavy engines through the snow, they know not whither, in such a driving storm, is abominable. We fear from the direction of the wind, that great damage has been sustained by these mariners who were unfortunately on the coast, when the storm commenced; and such is the advanced sea of the year, and the quantity of snow that has fallen, that we may anticipate great destruction among mills and bridges, from the freshet that must almost inevitably ensue.

It was indeed as dreadful storm, as will be seen by the following chapter of accidents and disasters, which probably includes but a small number of the whole. We tremble For the lone traveller on the hill of storm. For the toss'd shipman on the perilous deep.
Vessels damaged in the East River.
New brig belonging to Mr. Morgan, both masts, rigging &c. gone by the board.
Brig Friendship, of Bristol R.I. capsized; masts in the water, keel on the deck.
Brig Remittance, of Bristol, R.I. on her beam ends.
Sloop Mechanic sunk at Corlear's Hook. Three other sloops damaged at the same place.
Schooner ____, loaded with live oak, sunk at Manhattan Island.
The ship Vermont was driven ashore from Corlear's Hook to Watson's Mill; one end of the mill was driven in by the force of the ship.
A ship drove from Manhattan Island, on the mud flag.
Sloop Cornelia, of Albany, arrived from Albany during the gale, and had all her sails blown away, before they could be taken in.
Brig Mentor, of Portland, stern chafed.
Brig Huron, quarter stoved.
An outward sloop ashore at the White Mills.
The Docks on the Brooklyn side are considerably injured.
The three topgallant mast of the new ship Canada were carried away by a wind close to the caps, the mate was badly wounded in endeavoring to cut away one of them.
Brig Reindeer, drifted afoul of the schooner Farmer's Fancy, of Warren, and both were damaged.
The brig Leopard, which arrived yesterday morning from Mobile, parted her cables, when at anchor near the Battery, and is ashore half a mile up the Kills, on the Mud Flats.
The ship Neutrality dragged her anchors from above Corlaer's Hook to near Governor's Island, where she remained at sunset.
Brig Midas, which arrived on Saturday from Savannah parted her cables, and was driven into the slip at Jones' wharf, stove in her bulwarks and some of her top timbers. The brig Spanish Soldier carried away her larboard chain plates and received other damage; also, the schooner Quito, bound to the West Indies, lying alongside the brig.
Sloop Ardent, at pier No. 10, bowsprit carried away, and part of her starboard bow stove in.
Brig Rapid had her stern boat stove, and some damage done to her stern.
The ship Indian Chief, Humphrey, bound to Liverpool, was driven from her anchorage, and is ashore at Staten Island.
The packet ship Amellia Crane, bound to Charleston is on her beam ends at Ellis' Island. Vessel ___ and the cargo of dry goods, &c. drifting about in _______
A sloop ashore at Bedlow's Island.
Brig Hannah is blown over and her masts lie across the wharf.
The line ship Com. Perry was thrown on her beam ends, but righted with the loss of her foretop gallant mast.
The packet ship Robert Fulton lost her fore top gallant mast.
Packet ship Stephania is blown over, and her masts lay cross the wharf.
Ship Oscar, for LIverpool, parted her fasts, but was afterwards secured.
A schooner lying along side the ship Ohio, at Brookly, has her foremast gone and sunk.
The steam boat Patent, received some damaged in her wheel guards, &c.
The new steam boat, building at Brown's Yard, had her keel broken.
At the Navy-Yard Ferry
The steam ferry boat was stove to pieces.
On the Brooklyn shore.
Sloop Mercantile, of Brookhaven, sunk.
Sloop Gamecock, of Brooklyn, sunk.
Sloop Enterprise, of Elizabethtown, sunk.
Sloop Philander, injured by the mast of a sloop falling on her..
Schooner Brown, of New York, gunwale stove.
Sloop Clinton, Dennett, with lumber, ashore on Bedlow's Island.
In the North River
Brig Columbia, of Newport, capsized at Howland's wharf, North River carried away her main yard, and is otherwise injured. Her topmasts lay across the schooner Swan, which, it is supposed, received injury.
The brig Ohio, lying at Rector street wharf, North River, was capsized and lies on her beam ends. A pettyauger schooner belonging to Powles' Hook, had her foremast carried away, and sunk. The schooner Speedy, in the North River, received some injury.
A brig partly loaded, at the wharf above Rector Street, parted all her fasts, and was driven on the leeward pier, with considerable damage.
Damage on the Jersey shore. The Steam Boat ferry house, and wharves, are considerable injured: damage estimated at $1000.
The schooners Industry, and Patriot, loaded with pine wood are wrecked near Jersey City. The sloop Jane, with wood much injured.
Sloop Hamilton, bound to Albany, ashore near Comunipaw.
The Steam Boat Bellona, arrived this morning from New Brunswick. A passenger informs us, that he counted, between new Brunswick and this port, fifty-three vessels, sunk., or ashore. One of those was a sloop, from Rahway, with bricks. A female passenger drowned.
Many trees in the Park, and various parts of the city were blown down. Mr. Purdy's carpenter shop, and Mr. Clark's livery stable in the Bowery, were blown down; two or three horses killed in the latter.

April 4, 1823 - Spectator (New York, New York)
From the Morning Papers.
The ship India, lies on her beam ends at Corlaer's Hook.
Sloop Maria Ann, carried away her main boom on the north side of the town.
Fifty-five fathoms of Tucker and Carter's rope walk, near the Navy Yard, are blown down.
Many trees are prostrated at Brooklyn, and some houses injured.
A gentleman from Flushing L.I. states that 7 or 8 sloops and schooners are seen ashore between Hell Gate and Throgg's Point.
A sloop from R. Island, for this port, is ashore at the entrance of Flushing Bay.
At Governor's Island, the wharf is mostly washed away - the boathouse blown down, and 3 boats under it crushed to pieces. Several other boats dashed to pieces among the rocks, including an elegant pleasure boat belonging to Col. Anderson, which drifted from Whitehall.
A good deal of drift lumber and timber is lodged on the Island.
The Revenue Cutter Active, Capt. Cahoone, parted her fasts at the public store wharf, Staten Island, and stove in her larboard quarter. Much damage is done to the wharf, and the bridge at the Planter's Hotel, is all carried away.
A sloop is sunk near Red Hook - her stern only can be seen.
The steam boat Atalanta, went ashore at the Kilns.
The schooner Hannah Maria, Leming, from Barnegat, with wood, is high and dry.
Schooners Greyhound and Superior, sunk at Elizabethtown Point wharf. Sloop Morning Star, Wainwright, from Rahway, with bricks, sunk on the Flats near the Point, and a Mrs. Silcocks, of Rahway was drowned.
Schooners John, Jones and Comet, are high and dry on Staten Island - the latter much injured.
Sloop _____, Randolph, from Rahway, with brick, is ashore and supposed to have bilged. Schooner Spitfire, of New York, is on the meadows near Elizabethtown Point, high and dry. Schooner Thomas, Gibbons, hence for Bridgetown, ashore at the same place.
Several oof the temporary establishments erected during the fever, at Greenwich are blown down.
The sloop Julia, with a load of hay, drifted from South Amboy, and has not since been seen.
The schooner Rising Sun, went ashore near the old Blazing Star, and remains high and dry.
The sloop Constitution, Doughty of Egg Harbour, which sailed hence on Friday, for Fredericksburg, with a cargo of sugar, dry goods &c. went ashore about 3 p.m. yesterday, on Staten Island, against the white mills, stove in her waist and otherwise damaged.
Schooner Bold Commander, Somers, bound to Old Point Comfort; and Telegraph, Somers, bound to Richmond, rode out the gale in the bay without any material injury.
The sloop Amazon, Dennett, arrived yesterday afternoon from Troy. She weathered the storm at Verplanck's Point. At that place, the sloop Dutchess, of Poughkeepsie, lost her anchor and run ashore, but it was expected would be got off. The sloop Thrasher, from Hudson, lost her main boom above West Point. The Amazon, passed yesterday morning, sloop Justina from Albany, ashore at Cauldwell's near Peekskill, had carried away her main boom. Saw on the way, 7 sloops ashore - 3 sunk about 20 miles above this city - and one about 3 miles above..
The sloop Sutton, has also arrived from Hudson. She rode out the gale under the Highlands ________. The sloop Merchant from Poughkeepsie, dragged against the rocks, and was obliged to throw overboard part of her deck load of beer.
The brig Hippomenes was thrown on her beam ends at the wharf.
The brig Spanish Soldier, and the schooner Quito, bound to the West Indies, and lying alongside the former, both received considerable damage.
The mail driver who came in with the mail at 11 o'clock yesterday forenoon, reports that a stage belonging to the Union Line was crushed down by the falling of a tree across the road this side of New Brunswick, and that one of the passengers was killed.
The Eastern mail arrived a little after 9 o'clock last evening. It started from New Haven at the usual hour on Sunday morning and was brought as far as Bridgeport in a coach, and from that place in a sleigh. We learn from a passenger, that a New Haven packet, from this port, with about 30 passengers, had put into Black Rock harbor, with loss of cables and anchors.
A pilot boat which went down yesterday morning, came up last evening - reports below the schooner Palladium, from St. Michael's - and a herm. brig ashore on the Jersey shore to the westward of the Highlands.
Three pilot boats were below during the gale. 
The Grand Canal and Trimmer rode out the gale in the Horse Shoe. The Thos. H. Smith anchored near them, but was not seen yesterday. A fore and aft schooner was seen ashore near Middletown Bluff, resembling a pilot boat.
Sloop Dispatch, from Woodbridge, N.J. is ashore the North side of Staten Island.
The Grand canal pilot boat, cruized a considerable distance off the Hook yesterday, and saw nothing ashore.
(Further intelligence this morning)
The Pilot Boat Thomas H. Smith, is ashore at Old Point Comfort; not damaged.
The schooner Margaret Ann, Capt. Daniels, which sailed from this port, for Norfolk, on Wednesday last, was wrecked on Sunday night, at Point Comfort, Jersey shore. Vessel and cargo much damaged. Three men were found dead on board of the schooner, and one on the shore. It is presumed that all who were on board perished. 

April 10, 1823 - City Gazette and Commercial (Charleston, South Carolina)
 DREADFUL  GALE AT NEW YORK. The sloop Amazon, Dennett, arrived here yesterday afternoon from Troy.  She weathered the storm at Verplanck's Point.  At that place the sloop Dutchess, of Poughkeepsie, lost her anchor and run ashore, but was expected would be got off.  The sloop Thrasher, from Hudson, lost her boom above West Point.  The Amazon, passed yesterday morning, sloop Justina from Albany, ashore at Cauldwell's near Peekskill, had carried away her boom.  Saw on the way, 7 sloops ashore -- 3 sunk about 20 miles above this city --and one about 3 miles above.

The sloop Sutton, as also arrived from Hudson.  She rode out the gale under the Highlands -- lost her chain cable, and one anchor.  The sloop Merchant from Poughkeepsie, dragged against the rocks, and was obliged to throw overboard part of her deck load of beer.

November 11, 1823 - Rhode-Island American (Providence, Rhode Island)
Corn at Auction. William P. Greene will sell at auction, To-Morrow, November 12, at 11 o'clock, A.M. From on board the sloop Clipper, at Mowry's wharf, One Thousand bushels North River Corn.

January 24, 1826 Albany Argus (Albany, New York)
On Tuesday last, a sloop arrived at New York, from this city, laden with produce. The Poughkeepsie papers of Wednesday mention the departure of sloops from that place for New York, and the passage of several sloops by, bound down the river.

February 7, 1826 Westchester Herald (Ossining, New York)
For Sale, The sloop Cortlandt, of 75 tons burthen; is a good substantial vessel, in good condition, and a part of her timbers are locust. For terms apply to Captain John Sherwood, at Sparta, or to the Subscriber at Singsing Richard Austen

February 8, 1826 Dutchess Observer (Poughkeepsie, New York)
Saturday Sloops to sail from New Hamburgh Landing the ensuing season. Sloop Nancy, A. Bogardus, Captain. Sloop Huntress, E.B. Godfrey, Captain. The subscribers having taken the Store House and Landing at New Hamburgh, formerly owned by John Drake, jur. and Samuel Bogardus, intend sailing one of the above sloops from said Landing to New York on Saturday of each week, at four o'clock P.M. during the slooping season.

February 10, 1826 Albany Argus (Albany, New York)
Notice. The citizens of Albany and Troy, who are engaged in Sloop Navigation on the Hudson River, are invited to call and see the new invented ponderous Machines and Lighters, described in a plate, calculated to bring any Sloop over the Overslaugh, by lighting them from 30 to 50 tons. The inventor, having a full conviction of the utility of this invention, has left it with WM. HAINS, No. 61 Chapel St., Albany, where it will be open for inspection, between the hours of 9 A.M. and 4 P.M. Artimas Gleason

February 24, 1826 Albany Argus (Albany, New York)
River Navigation (For the Albany Argus & City Gazette). The great importance to the northern and western parts of the state, in the improvement of the navigation of the Hudson river, from the sloop lock above Troy to Coeymans Landing, must be admitted by all who take an interest in accelerating the march to greatness, which New York is destined to attain, if the fostering encouragement of our legislature shall be directed to this interesting subject.

The diversity of modes for the attainment of this desirable end has induced some of our public spirited citizens to seek for information among scientific as well as practical men, in order to select the most effiacious as well as economical method of removing the obstacles which now impede the navigation. The great improvement in the dredging machines now in use on the river Thames, if adopted here, will undoubtedly effect the object in view, in the expeditious and economical manner. To the various modes hitherto used, of sinking jettees or wing dams, for the purpose of removing the alluvial deposits by an accelerated current, there are objections which do not apply to the method of excavating by the dredge, and the experience as to the expense and inefficacy of the former mode, compared to the latter, if reliance be placed on the statements made by those who speak from actual knowledge, is such, that there ought to be no hesitation on the part of the legislature, to make the necessary appropriations to put into operation one or two dredging machines, constructed upon the plan of those mentioned in a letter which has been received from London - a copy of which is as follows:
"Agreeably to your request, we have calculated the expense of a dredging machine, to be worked by a 12 horse power steam engine, with the necessary machinery for working a set of buckets on each side of a vessel to work in twenty feet water. We find it would amount to about 2,800 pounds sterling, equal to $12, 432.

The machinery of loading from 100 to 140 tons per hour into the craft along side the vessel, and in the expense of working such a machine here (in London) would be nearly as follows, per day:
Say 4 men at 5 x. per day, 1 pound 2 0
Coals for 10 hours, 13 bush.15 0
Oil, tallow, hemp, yarn, &c. 3 0
Wear and tear of engine, 1 2 0
3 pounds 2 0 eq. to $13.76
Say the mere working ten hours per day would raise 1200 tons.
Supposing the above rough statements are the particulars wished, we would be glad to execute your orders, provided we are allowed 10 months to do it in. Hunter & English"

By another letter received from the agent of the West Point Foundry Association, it is stated that "the price of a 12 horse low pressure steam engine, with dredging machinery, cranes, &c. put up complete for deepening to the depth of 14 feet, will be $8000. With regard to the performance of the machine, I annex a copy of a letter (which precedes this) from one of the London establishments, in reply to an application made by a gentleman in this city, (N. York) The calculations are made from actual experiment, and may be relied upon."

These letters furnish satisfactory data by which to estimate the expense of excavating with a dredging machine. The amount of excavation required to make 10 feet water, at low water, from the city of Albany to Coeymans, will be about 100,000 cubic yards. This has been ascertained from actual soundings of the river. What then will be the expense of accomplishing this great object according to the preceding statements?
A dredging machine will cost   $8000
The expense of raising 1200 tons, or 1000 cubic yards, being about  $15, it will cost to raise 100,000 yards.      1500
The vessel to carry the machinery, and boats to remove the ground excavated, will cost about    3500
The expense of hands to manage the boats is estimated at    3,000
$16,000
Add 10 per cent for carting,  1,600
Total estimated cost for excavating, $17,600

A channel 10 feet deep, at low water, seventeen thousand six hundred dollars.

If it should cost double the sum estimated, the object in view, when accomplished, would make rich returns to the public for the disbursement.

In this statement no estimate is made for deepening the channel from this city to the Troy dam, as the writer of this article is not furnished with the necessary data. Enough, however, is stated to show that the entire work may be accomplished for a moderate, sum and at a much less expense than by any other mode hitherto adopted.

In order to satisfy the legislature that if the excavation of a good channel should be made, it would continue permanent, let facts, founded on actual observation and experience, be a test.

The gentleman who has superintended the excavation between Albany and Troy, has stated that he has sounded the excavated channel, and has found that the water is deeper and the channel wider since he finished his operations. The person who directed the operations of the dredging machine at the Overslaugh, during the last season, has, within a few days, taken the soundings of the channel on which he operated. and he finds a depth of from ten to twelve feet water; while on the adjacent bottom not excavated, there is from 5 to 7 feet only.

Thus by means of an indifferent dredge, with three horses, employed about two months, we have an increased average depth of 5 feet, in a place where our navigation had to encounter the most formidable obstructions.

The facts herein stated are submitted to the serious consideration of the legislature, in the hope that their importance will ensure a moderate appropriation of money, to effect an object of vital interest to the commercial as well as agricultural portion of a large section of the state. A Navigator.

February 28, 1826 - Westchester Herald (Ossining, New York)
Our Harbour
The recent mild weather has had a salutory effect upon the obstructed navigation on the Hudson river, and our ample bay is new free from ice. A sloop full freighted landed here on Thursday of last week, and another the day before yester, for New York - others will leave today, and our agricultural friends, far and near, may confidently expect that the usual market trade in the place will be resumed with accustomed vigour and promptitude - We observe also similar movements at Tarrytown, _____ and the various landings in the county; and doubtless the buoyant bosom of the nobly flowing Hudson will shortly exhibit her thousand sails freighting the products of our fruitful farms into the mart of the metropolis.

We observed a steamboat, supposed the Saratoga, passing up the river the day before yesterday, and would probably reach Poughkeepsie.

March 14, 1826 - Westchester Herald (Mouth Pleasant, New York)
Upper Dock Sailing Regulations
The subscribers tender their sincere acknowledgements to the public for past favours, and hereby request a continuance of the same. The sloop DELAVAN is still commanded by Capt. Harris, who sails of Tuesdays; and the VOLUNTEER by Capt. Leggett, sails on Saturdays.

All orders and produce entrusted to them will meet with prompt and careful attention - and they urge the attendance of their friends early in the day, as it is to their interest as well as our convenience. Henry Harris. John Leggett. 

March 15, 1826 - Dutchess Observer (Poughkeepsie, New York)
Yesterday morning the sloop Montgomery was discovered by the Captain of the Horse boat at this place floating down the river, and towed by him to the opposite shore. It appears from the best information we can gather from the various reports afloat concerning it, that the Montgomery, Capt. D. Weeks from Rhinebeck, while on his passage up the river was capsised off Crumelbow Point.

Capt. Weeks succeeded in loosing the small boat and getting alongside the sloop, when two men on deck attempted to jump into the small boat, one of whom fell across the boat and bruised himself so severely, that his life is despaired of. One man was taken out of the cabin alive seven hours after the sloop capsised, and two are yet missing, supposed to be drowned.

March 29, 1826 - Albany Argus (Albany, New York)
Turks Island Salt. 1,500 Bushels on board the sloop Franklin, for sale at a reduced price, and in lots, to suit purchasers, if immediate application is made on board, or to Wm. Chapman, 463 S. Market Street.

April 11, 1826 - Westchester Herald (Mount Pleasant, New York)
Farmers' Dock Arrangements for the Season.
The Marketing Trade from this Landing the present season, will be conducted in the following order, viz.
SLOOP DECATUR, Capt. S. Green, will leave Singsing for New York, every Tuesday afternoon, and New York every Friday afternoon, for Singsing.
Sloop MONTGOMERY, Capt. P.B. Lynch, Will leave Singsing for New York, every Saturday afternoon, and New York every Wednesday afternoon, for Singsing; and the public are respectfully assured that all produce and orders entrusted to them will be faithfully attended to.
​N.B. The subscribers, proprietors of said Dock, hold themselves responsible for all freight put on board the above vessels. H. Baily. S. Green.

April 14, 1826 - Albany Argus (Albany, New York)
Drowned - On the 7th inst. David H. Crumby, son of David Crumby, carpenter, of Troy, from off the sloop Minerva, four miles this side of Poughkeepsie. He was an industrious and promising youth, between 16 and 17 years of age. He has not yet been found. His parents would be very thankful, should his body be discovered by any person, to give them immediate notice.
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April 18, 1826 - Albany Argus (Albany, New York)
Accident - On Monday last, a young man by the name of William Smith, the sailing master of the sloop Despatch, of Coxsackie, was knocked overboard by the boom in the horse-race, about 52 miles from New York, and drowned.

May 2, 1826 - Albany Argus (Albany, New York)
(From the Newburgh Index) Mystery - On the 26th of September 1822, a gentlemen, with a son and a daughter, from 13 to 15 years of age, came from New York to this place in the sloop David Porter, capt. Seth Belknap. The gentleman called his name Daniel M.cDaniels Smith, and stated to the captain that he was a blacksmith from Philadelphia, and was about to establish himself in the village.

He paid his passage in gold coin, and appeared to have a quantity of that precious metal in his possession. He gave Capt. B. an order on the captain of a Philadelphia vessel for his goods, consisting of a great quantity of iron hinges, anvils, blacksmith's articles of every description, and two chests, one filled with books, and the other with clothing. He, with his children, then took lodgings in the stone house of Mr. J. Hasbrouck, and have not been seen or heard of since that time.

That house, we understand, was at that time tenanted by one Silas L. Gardner. Capt. B. after having taken the order of Mr. Smith, in a week or two received from on board the Philadelphia vessel the goods mentioned, brought them to this village, where they have remained from 1822 to this time, unclaimed and unquired after. The owner was an intelligent Scotch gentleman, and the great mystery is, what has become of him and his two children. Strong suspicions are afloat that they came to a foul and untimely end; but we have no evidence before us on that subject and shall therefore leave the matter for the present, and content ourselves with giving the foregoing account of things known.

May 19, 1826 - Albany Argus (Albany, New York)
The facts connected with the arrival of the sloop Hiram, captain Stranger, of Poughkeepsie, show the migratory habits of the times. Ten entire families, from the grand-fathers and grant-mothers, bowed down with the weight of years, to children of the tenderest age, comprising upwards of sixty persons, occupied the cabin. All parts of the deck, the hold, and a long way up the shrowds, were loaded with a medley of all sorts of furniture. All this, together with the assortment of men, women and children, was transferred from the vessel to one or two canal boats; and by such and by other means, they were going from their farms in Amenia, Dutchess county, - their home, and the home of their fathers - into a distant land, beyond the Ohio or possibly the Great Lakes. They seemed to be cheerful, and content with the fortune that impelled them to seek out a new habitation, (several of them at a period of life when for their use earthly habitations could endure but a very brief space,) and they seemed to look forward to the possession of their fancied Elysium, with the greatest satisfaction.

August 9, 1826 - Cabinet (Schenectady, New York)
Storm - Yesterday afternoon, says the Albany Daily of August 8, this city was visited with a hard storm of rain, accompanied with thumber and lightning. The sloop Juno, Capt. Krous, lying in the river, in front of State Street bridge, was struck with lightning, which destroyed the topmast, and pursued its course down, in a spiral direction, following the grain of the wood, till it arrived at the deck; it is supposed that here the principal part of the fluid followed the iron traveller, and passed off into the water; a part tore away one of the mast wedges, and exhausted itself at the kelson.

A Mrs. Hermance was at the time sitting on an earthen jar, within four feet of the mast; the jar was shivered into a hundred pieces, and the lady was stunned very severely. By immediately throwing on her a bucket of water, she was recovered in about ten minutes. The captain, who was standing at the companion way, had a small hole burnt in the bosom of his shirt, and his suspenders were loosened from the rear buttons. He received, however, no personal injury.

The mast of the schooner Gonzalo, Capt. Stocking, of New York, which was lying within a few yards of the Juno, was also considerably injured at the same time. The splinters were scattered over the whole deck, and some of them near the ring bolts were driven into the deck as completely as though they were of iron, and a hammer had been used in the operation.​

September 12, 1826 - Albany Argus (Albany, New York)
A singular and fatal occurrence took place in this city yesterday, the particulars of which we have received from Mr. Thos. L. Pemberton, coroner. A young man named Nelson (whether his christian or sir-name is not known,) of Cherry Valley, about 17 years of age, employed in one of the canal boats, was sent on board the sloop DeWitt Clinton, lying in the basin, with a line for the purpose of warping the boat. Whilst there, Thomas C. Haggerty, a hand attached to the sloop Sappho, and then on board that vessel, inquired whether he wanted work. Nelson replied that he did, asking at the same time the nature of the employment. Haggerty said that it was none of his business. Nelson made a further reply; when Haggerty told him if he did so again he would throw him overboard. Nelson either said he could not, or defied him to do it; upon which Haggerty immediately jumped on board the vessel, caught him in his arms, and threw him into the basin. When Haggerty perceived that he did not rise to the surface, he plunged into the water to his rescue; but every exertion made by him and by others to recover the body, were unsuccessful, until the lapse of half an hour; and then the efforts to restore life were unavailing. Haggerty afterwards attempted to throw himself into the basin, but was prevented, and was committed for trial.

September 15, 1826 - Albany Argus (Albany, New York)
Fire in Boston - The N.Y. Mercantile Advertiser of Tuesday morning states that a passenger arrived there in the steam boat Fanny informs that a fire broke out in Boston on Saturday night, between 11 and 12 o'clock, on the wharf next north of Union wharf, and destroyed all the range of wooden buildings on the same, occupied by Othnial French, rigger, Burkis & Hosea, D. Hiller and others. The packet sloop Gen. Brown, of Albany, lying aground at the wharf, was also destroyed. Fortunately the wind was light, or it is probable an extensive conflagration would have occurred.

Another account from the office of the Boston Centinel, says: The Albany packet sloop General Brown, which lay on the graving dock, heeled towards the buildings on fire, with her masts extending over the building, and it being low tide, had her masts, sails and rigging burnt. The upper part of her larboard side and the deck were so much burnt, that it is expected they will have to be made anew.

November 28, 1826 - Albany Argus (Albany, New York)
Steam Boat Accident. - On Thursday afternoon between 5 and 6 o'clock, the steamboat New Philadelphia and the sloop Express, reported to us to be of New York, came in contact with each other, and were both seriously injured. The steam boat was on her upward passage, and the vessel before the wind, bound for New York. When near East Camp, about five miles below Catskill, the pilot discovered the vessel, and endeavored to avoid her, and in doing so, ran very near the east shore; but the persons on board the vessel were not on the look-out, or owing to the haze and darkness of the evening did not discover the steam boat, and ran foul of her. One of the wheels of the boat was destroyed, and she was otherwise much damaged. The mast and the bowsprit of the sloop were carried by the board, and she also was disabled in other respects. As soon as the passengers had recovered from the violence of the shock, Capt. Cochrane, with characteristic humanity, manned both his barges, and sent them to the relief of the sloop. Only one man, who had fallen under the rubbish of the mast, but who was extricated without difficulty, was found on deck; the remainder of the crew had retreated below, much frightened. Afterwards, the Philadelphia proceeded, with the use of one of her wheels, as far up the the river as Hudson, whence her passengers were brought to this city by the Constellation, Capt. Cruttenden.

January 8, 1828 - New York Evening Post (New York, New York)
A mild winter; the river is open to Albany; wood is cheap; eggs and other produce are plentiful.

February 20, 1828 - Providence Patriot (Providence, Rhode Island)
Butter - 129 firkins North River Butter, just landed from sloop Superior, or sale by Daniel Arnold, 12 West Water St.

June 20, 1828 - American (New York, New York)
A cow was landed from a sloop on the west side of the city on Wednesday afternoon, which by some accident had fallen overboard. Shortly afterwards, she broke away from those who had charge of her, and ran furiously through the streets, exhibiting unequivocal signs of madness. Many persons were attacked by her and much hurt. In Mott Street a man and a child were seriously injured and one woman, we learn, was killed. All attempts to retrain the cow proved abortive, until a fine, large bull dog, the property of one of our butchers, was produced. He attacked her most heroically and soon pinned her by the muzzle to the ground, where he held her resolutely until she was secured by ropes, when she was easily carried off and prevented from doing any further mischief. - Gaz.

December 30, 1828 - Saratoga Sentinel
The navigation of the Hudson river closed as low down as the city of Hudson, last week.

January 22, 1838. Spectator.
Vicissitudes of Winter Weather. According to a meteorological memorandum, kept at the New York University, the Hudson river was not closed by ice, in the following years, until February 3d, 1790 and 1802; January 12th, 1795; January 23rd, 1796; January 6th, 1800; January 3d, 1801; January 12th, 1804; January 9th, 1806; January 4th, 1808; January 19th, 1810; January 5th, 1825; January 11th, 1830; December 21st, 1832. The earliest time of closing, since the first mentioned period, was November 30th, 1820. The earliest opening of the river, when it was free of ice was February 8th, 1828: the latest was April 4th, 1836.

April 12, 1838. Newburgh Telegraph.
NEW ESTABLISHMENT. FARMERS & MERCHANTS Tow Boat Line for 1838, from De Wint's Dock, between Oakley & Davis & and Crawford Docks, NEWBURGH.

THE subscribers have entered into copartnership under the firm of BELKNAP, SIMONSON & amp; JOHNSTON, and have taken the above dock for the purpose of carrying on the Freighting business. The new sloop DAVID BELKNAP, Capt. Chas, Johnston, (late of the steamboat "Washington") will be towed from the above dock every TUESDAY at 6 o'clock P. M. and will leave the foot of Warren street, New York, every SATURDAY, at 5 o'clock in the afternoon. She will be towed from Newburgh by the steam boat NORFOLK, and arrive in New York before day light, in time for the morning market. She will leave the city on Saturday afternoon, and will deliver freights at Newburgh as early Monday morning as can be effected by steamboats.

By this method of transportation the public will be well accommodated, as all kinds of freights can be conveyed at Reduced Rates. As the sloop will make but one trip a week, and remain in New York FOUR DAYS, the subscribers will have a decided advantage in making sale of stock and produce on trusted to their care. The David Belknap was built last season, in the most substantial manner, and is well calculated for carrying grain, stock and freight of every description. All unsettled accounts will be left at the store house on the
dock. The subscribers solicit the patronage of the public, DAVID BELKNAP, JR. WALTER SIMONSON, CHARLES JOHNSTON,

BELKNAP, SIMONTON &; JOHNSTON, will keep for sale canal flour, coarse and fine salt, fish, pork, plaster, clover and timothy seed, & Grain will be taken and stored on the owners* account, and shipped when ordered.