Of the next generation of builders, Stephen Smith, who like Isaac Webb was born in Stamford, formed with John Dimon the firm of Smith & Dimon, and prior to 1843 they had built among other vessels the packet ships _Roscoe_ and _Independence_, the ship _Mary Howland_, the North River steamboats _Rochester_, _James Kent_, and _Oregon_, and the Greek frigate _Liberator_. Their building yard was at the foot of Fourth Street, East River. David Brown and Jacob Bell formed the firm of Brown & Bell, and had a yard at the foot of Stanton Street, a part of which had formerly been the Henry Eckford yard. Prior to 1843, this firm had built the ships _Orbit_ and _William Tell_ in 1821, the _Canada_, _Calhoun_, _Savannah_, _Pacific_, _Washington_, _Great Britain_, _John Jay_, _Britannia_, _George Canning_, _Caledonia_, _Hibernia_, and _Congress_ from 1821 to 1831; the _Victoria_, _Europe_, _Francis Depaw_, _Silvia de Grasse_, _Vicksburg_, _Emerald_, _Switzerland_, _Shakespeare_, _Garrick_, _Sheridan_, _Siddons_, _Roscius_, and _Cornelia_ from 1831 to 1841; and the _Liverpool_, _Queen of the West_, and _Henry Clay_ in the period from 1841 to 1843, inclusive. Besides these, they built fifteen other ships, seven steamers, eight barques and brigs, thirty-nine steamboats, six ferry-and tow-boats, nineteen sloops and schooners, seven pilot boats, and four yachts. Upon the death of Isaac Webb in 1840, his son William H. Webb, then only twenty-four years of age, continued the firm of Webb & Allen which built during the next ten years the packet ships _Montezuma_, _Yorkshire_, _Havre_, _Fidelia_, second _Columbia_, _Sir Robert Peel_, _Splendid_, _Bavaria_, _Isaac Wright_, _Ivanhoe_, _Yorktown_, _London_, _Guy Mannering_, _Albert Gallatin_, _Isaac Webb_, and _Vanguard_. Their yard extended from the foot of Fifth to Seventh Street, East River. Jacob A. Westervelt, born at Hackensack, New Jersey, in 1800, was the son of a ship-builder. He went to sea before the mast and upon his return served his apprenticeship with Christian Bergh, subsequently becoming a partner in the firm and retiring with an ample fortune in 1837. Mr. Westervelt then made an extensive trip through Europe, and after returning built two ships at Williamsburg. He formed the firm of Westervelt & Mackay and built a number of London and Havre packet ships, among which were the _Ocean Queen_, _West Point_, _Toronto_, _Devonshire_, and _American Eagle_. The front door of Mr. Westervelt’s house in East Broadway was ornamented with a beautiful carved stone cap representing the stern of a packet ship. In later [Illustration: The “Yorkshire”] years, he took his sons Daniel and Aaron into partnership, the firm being known as Westervelt & Co. Jacob A. Westervelt was Mayor of New York in 1854.