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      Capt. Dan. H. Bromley, of Rochester ______ Capt. Bromley was born in New Haven, Oswego county, in the year 1810, and he was, therefore, in the sixty-sixth year of his age at the time of his death. Owing to his reticence regarding himself, very few particulars of his eventful ...

      The Belleville Intelligencer says that John Newman, who was reported lost on the schooner Maggie Hunter, has returned to his home, having been visiting at Gananoque.

      Excerpts from letter dated Dec. 5, 1876, published in Oswego Palladium, dated Dec. 9, 1876. To put this in context, Hamilton Colton is describing the west side of Oswego below the lower bridge over the Oswego river, as it appeared in the early days.

      Narrow Escape _____ The Schooner Gladstone in Attempting to Enter the Harbor Sags on to the East Pier - Rescued and brought into Port. _____ Yesterday afternoon, about two o'clock, the schooner Gladstone, Captain

    Narrow Escape _____ The Schooner Gladstone in Attempting to Enter the Harbor Sags on to the East Pier - Rescued and brought into Port. _____ Yesterday afternoon, about two o'clock, …

Maritime History of the Great Lakes

      Ride Out A Gale. ______ The Scow Sassacus Finds new Anchorage Again. ______ It is safe to say that Captain Patrick Ryan of the scow-schooner Saccacus knows more about ...

      Lost on the Napanee River It will be seen by the following from the Mill Point correspondent of the Belleville Ontario that Mr.

    Lost on the Napanee River It will be seen by the following from the Mill Point correspondent of the Belleville Ontario that Mr.

Maritime History of the Great Lakes

      Singular Coincidence. ______ Death of a Man who Assisted in Capturing Oswego in 1814. _____ Last Saturday afternoon an old man, John Sullivan , who had seen ninety-one years, died on board ...

      *Building still stands - for many years was Cahill's Fishery, now closed.

      Tugs and Officers The Oswego Towing Association has appointed officers to the following boats: - Crusader, H.C. Manwaring, captain; C.P. Morey, James Pappa, captain, George Cozzens, engineer; F.D. Wheeler, C.W. Ferris, captain, James Carney, engineer; Major ...

      Forty Years Ago _______ How an Engineer Was Reinstated on the Steamer Martha Ogden. "Yes, we had some fine steamers in those days," remarked a gentleman, who came here and assisted the French in building the Fort, which stood where the Carrington Castle now stands, in ...

      Life Saving Stations _______ The Boats, Houses and Crews at Oswego, Salmon Creek and Big Sandy. _______ Lieutenant R. Glover, U. S. R. M., arrived in town yesterday to inspect the life saving station at this port, preparatory to its acceptance by the ...

      Marine News ________ Sixty-Eight Years Ago. - In looking over old papers at the Custom House a few days since, we found some clearance manifests issued in 1808, in manuscript. The following is a transcript of a manifest dated Nov. 1st, of that year: District and ...

      An Old Resident of Oswego ______ His Recollections of the Battle of Oswego Day before yesterday a gentleman apparently about sixty years of age was introduced into our editorial sanctum as one who was one of the first inhabitants of Oswego, and who could remember ...

      A Collision On The Lake _______ The Schooners American and Marysburg Involuntarily Meet off Braddock's Point _______ One of the worst looking wrecks we have seen this season is the schooner Marysburg, which arrived this morning from Toronto with lumber. Last ...

      The Disasters of 1799 From the Mexico Independent Probably nothing occurred in the earlier days of the town which created as much consternation and sorrow as the lake disasters in 1799. The drowning of so large a proportion of the settlers of ...

      Another Shipwreck. _______ Portions of a Vessel's Cabin and Cabin Furniture Found on the Beach at Coe's Landing - What is the Name of the Ill-Fated Craft? _______ There can no longer be a doubt that there has been a shipwreck on Lake Ontario below this port ...

      A Former Resident Dead. _____ Jesse M. O'Leary Drowned in the Maumee River. _____ Last Saturday night Mr. Daniel Lyons received a letter from Toledo, Ohio, containing the sad news of the drowning of Jesse M. O'Leary, a former resident of this city. The Toledo ...

      The Schooner Orient The types made us say yesterday that the schooner Orient was "jacketed" when she sunk whereas we wished to say that she was not "jacketed." A telegram was received from Captain Henderson yesterday stating that the schooner's cabin had been ...

      Another Shipwreck _________ The Schooner Odd Fellow With Lumber Drifts to the Beach Below the East Pier __________ Last night the schooner Odd Fellow, with 60,000 feet of lumber from Port Hope, consigned to J.K. Post & Co., in attempting to reach this port, ...

      The Breeze Vessels and Steamers compelled to run back -- narrow escape of the steamer Ariadne The wind which piped up moderately strong from the northwest yesterday became a gale to-day. This morning about eleven o'clock the velocity at the observation office was 28 miles per ...