Ships of the Early American Republic

Amistad

Benjamin Franklin

Ferry, connecting Providence, RI with New York. George Washington Adams committed suicide by jumping overboard from this ferry on April 30, 1829.

Constitution

"Old Ironsides" - equipped with copper sheathing by Paul Revere. (source: possibly Appletons of Beacon Hill).

Its pursers included John Timberlake, whose suicide opened the way for Peggy O'Neale to marry John Eaton. Timberlake was succeeded, in 1828, by Robert Beverly Randolph, the man who pulled Andrew Jackson's nose.

Criterion - Mississippi Steamboat

Took Frances Trollope and her family from Memphis to Cincinnati. (Source: Introduction to Trollope, Domestic Manners of the Americans, p.xix)

Edward

Took Frances Trollope and her family, and Frances Wright, from England to America in late 1827 (Source: Eckhardt, Wright)

Enterprise

Frances Wright left Haiti on the Enterprise for Europe by way of Philadelphia. (Eckhardt, Wright, p212)

Fourth of July (Ohio River Steamboat)

Taking de Tocqueville and Beaumont down the Ohio River, on a cloudy night with the river full of blocks of ice, the ship crashes on a reef. (Source: Pierson, Tocqueville, p349)

Harriet

On Feb. 7, 1829, set out with "Prince" Ibrahima and a total of 152 passengers for Liberia. Described as "a handsome vessel, built at Bath, Maine, in 1819 by the noted shipwright James McLellan. 2 decks, 3 masts, 275 tons. (Source: Prince Among Slaves, p174, 172).

Havre

Presumably French - took de Tocqueville and Beaumont from France to America. an "able packet 'copper sheeted and riveted' [but] boasted only 300 tons". (Source: Pierson, Tocqueville, p23)

Jasper

Brig of 236 tons; Sailed with R.W. Emerson "cleared to Malta" on 12/25/32.

John Quincy Adams

A "163 ton brig" which Frances Wright chartered to sail from New Orleans to take the Nashoba slaves to freedom in Haiti. (Eckhardt, Wright, p211)

Lady Franklin

Steamer on the Ohio River -- took Frances Trollope and Family from Cincinnati to Wheeling in spring 1830. (Source: Introduction to Trollope, Domestic Manners of the Americans, p.li)

New England

Carried Frances Wright and Robert Dale Owen from New Orleans to La Havre in June and July 1827.

Pennsylvania

Steamboat that carried Andrew Jackson on the first leg of his journey to Washington to serve as President.

Princeton

An American battleship on board which the great gun called the "peacemaker" exploded, killing Virgil Maxcy, and others, I think. See 2/28/1844.

Sachem

387 tons, 109' by 29' wide, built 1810 by Thatcher Magoun, in Medford MA, where he was supposed to have built some of the best sailing ships.

In 1829, captained by Abel Coffin, it left Bangkok carrying the "Siamese Twins", Chang and Eng, to Boston. (Source: Walace and Walace, The Two, p47)