Hartford Steam Boiler Inspection and Insurance Company · Hartford, Ct. : Hartford Steam Boiler Inspection and Insurance Co · leaf 61
Fitch,six years before Robert Fulton made trial of his boat upon theRiver Seine, in France, and ten years prior to his puttinginto opperation his boat Clermont in New York; with a repre-sentation of the boat and its machinery, on the Collect pond. By John Hutchings,No. 2 Wesley Place,… … AS SEEN ON THE DELAWARE PhILA. I787. SpEED J MILES AN HOUR. but we should be grateful to Mr. Hutchings for the facts that he has given us,rather than critical respecting his imperfect literary style. John Fitch was born in Conn. 21th of June 1743. First we find him afarmers boy, next an apprentice…
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