Jessie Smith (Schooner, 1832)

Description

Identification

Construction and Ownership

Built at:: French Creek (Clayton), New York
Vessel Type:: Schooner
Hull Materials:: Wood
Bow Type:: Scroll Head
Builder Name:: Smith & Merrick
Ownership Notes:: Brown, John G., (1843-1844); Ardop, Robert, (1843); Groterant, Warren, (1843); Merrill, David, (1844);
Master(s):: Groterant, Warren, (1843); Ardop, Robert, (1843); Merrill, David, (1844); Sherwood, (1845);

Power

Hull Dimensions

Tonnage

Enrollments/Registration

May 10, 1843: Port: Detroit Number: 7 of 1843
Document Type: Enrollment
Reason: Changed Owner
Next document: Detroit 6-12-1843
June 12, 1843: Port: Detroit Number: 15 of 1843
Document Type: Enrollment
Reason: Changed Owner
Next document: Buffalo 8-9-1843
August 9, 1843: Port: Buffalo Number: 32 of 1843
Document Type: Enrollment
Reason: Changed Owner
Next document: Detroit 4-4-1844
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April 4, 1844: Port: Detroit Number: 2 of 1844
Document Type: Enrollment
Reason: Changed Owner

History

Classification:: a. Schooner, Jesse Smith (1832-1848)*
Nationality:: American (1832-1848)
Chronology:: 1. 7/00/1832, Niagara River, near Black Rock, sank and raised;
2. 11/22/1845, 6 miles north of Kalamazoo River, ashore and released;
3. 00/00/1846, east shore of Lake Michigan, ashore, $5, 000 loss;
4. 11/00/1848, Racine, Lake Michigan, dismasted, drifted ashore, (lumber), (1 life lost), $4, 500 loss;

Notes

General notes:: * Newspapers sometimes referred to her as "Jessie Smith";
On 6/17/1844 she was seized at Chicago by a Detroit custom officer for a breach of revenue laws and was taken to Detroit where the case was tried in United States Court;
She ran out of Milwaukee 1845-1847;
Sources:: 1. Enrollments: Buffalo, New York; Detroit, Michigan;
2. Master Abstracts: Buffalo, New York; Detroit, Michigan;
3. Detroit City Directory, 1846;
4. John Poole's notes;
5. J. H. Beers, History of the Great Lakes,: page 7, 14, (1848);
6. Commercial Advertiser & Journal: 11/15/1848, 12/30/1848;
7. Cleveland Weekly Herald: 4/21/1847;
8. Daily National Pilot (Buffalo): 7/7/1845, 12/5/1845;
9. Commercial Advertiser (Buffalo): 6/28/1844;
10. House Report No. 741; p. 160:
11. Wright's Master Sheet;

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