Old steamboat days on the Hudson River; tales and reminiscences of the stirring times that followed the introduction of steam navigation (1907)
Buckman, David Lear · New York : The Grafton press · leaf 98
herman had the ChiefJustice Marshall and Captain Fitch the New London,of the Troy Line. Captain Cruttenden was one of the last survivors ofthis class and when in command of the old Constella-tion he used to boast he never lost a trip or a life, hadmade one thousand one hundred and sixty-two… … a l-s 2-= Old River Captains 61 seventy-five years of age, dying in 1847, and must haverejoiced to note the great development in an industryin which he was a pioneer. Another veteran of theriver, Capt. Samuel Wiswall, Uved to be sixty-threeyears old and died in New York in 1836. He is buriedin…
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