Haw-Ho-Noo; Or, Records of a TouristLanman, Charles
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Haw-Ho-Noo; Or, Records of a Tourist
Lanman, Charles
Fishing -- North America; United States -- Description and travel
202 to Elizabethtown Point, at 4s. each 101 00
1,480 to Amboy, at 8 do 1,480 50
692 to Brunswick, at 12 do 1,038 75
90 way 55 20
Total receipts 2,675 45
“Of this sum one-sixth, equal 445 90, to patentees.”
Of the various persons with whom Fulton seems to have had extensive
dealings, the principal one was Robert R. Livingston, from whom large
sums of money were frequently received. The principal items under the
head of 1813 (which seems to have been a very busy year), give one an
idea of the extent of Fulton’s business, and is as follows:—
“Steamboats building and engaged:
2 from New Orleans to Louisville and St Louis, Mississippi $60,000
1 “ Pittsburg to Louisville, Ohio 25,000
1 “ Richmond to Norfolk, James River 35,000
1 “ Washington to Malbourg, Potomac 20,000
1 on Long Island Sound, from New York to Hartford 40,000
1 “ East River ferry boat to Brooklyn 20,000
1, Petersburg 25,000
1, Elizabeth 30,000
1, Robert Fulton 25,000
1, Charleston 30,000
1, Cape Fear 22,000
Total $332,000”
Another record which I find under the same head is this:—
“Waters under the direction of B. H. Latrobe, or such of them as he
shall have a steamboat on and in actual operation by January, 1815.
Such as shall not have the funds raised for one boat within one year
from May 1, 1813, shall be at the disposal of Livingston and Fulton.
“1st, Potomac, from Georgetown to Potomac Creek.
“2d, for the sounds from Charleston to Savannah.
“3d, from Pittsburg to Louisville.
“4th, the Cumberland from Nashville to Louisville.
“5th, the Tennessee to Louisville.
“For raising companies, funds, and establishing these, he has to have
of each one-third of the patentee’s rights.”
Under the head of 1812, we find a statement giving the expenses of a
North River steamboat (what one we know not), which amounted to $610 per
month, the boat making seventy-six trips. And as to wages, we gather
that the captain received $50 per month; pilot, $35; engineer, $35;
seamen and firemen, $20 each; cook, $16; servants, $14; and chambermaid,
$8.
Another record readeth as follows:—
“_Gentlemen of influence in Cincinnati, Ohio._—Jacob Burnet, Esq.,
Martin Baum, Esq., Jesse Hunt, General Findley, General Gano, Mr.
Stanly.”
The following I find under the head of “Notes on Steamboats:”—
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
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