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By the kindness of Hon. B. D. Sleight, I have examined an original "indenture" dated March 26, 1744, which recites that Benjamin L'Hom- medieu, Jr., Benjamin Bailey, John Vail, Sam'l Landon, John Prince, Elijalı Hutchinson and Isaac Hubbard, all of Southold, have, joined them- selves to be partners together in the trade or design of catching porpoises and other fish along the coast, shore or harbors of Long Island, to continue six months from April 4th, the arrangement being that L'Hommedieu should furnish a boat, porpoise seine, and one other seine for other fish, with tackling, &c., and two men, one experienced and skilled in the use thereof, while the others, either personally or by substitute, were to furnish
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each a capable man and to pay each one-tenth cost of provisions-L'Hom -. medieu to have five-elevenths of the profits and the others each one-eleventh.
At Orient, June 5, 1833, a seine at one haul took 12, 250 drum fish averaging 33 pounds in weight; the total catch weighing 202 tons and: 250 pounds.
Fifty years ago Trout fishing on Long Island had already become of recognized importance. The numerous swift streams of clear, cold and pure water, flowing from the higher level of the central region to the north and south shores-especially to the latter- make superior feeding and breed- ing haunts for the "speckled beauties," and it is held that the mingling of these fresh streams with the salt waters of the Bays serves to promote the growth and the delicacy of flavor for which the brook trout of Long Island have long been noted. However this may be, it is certain that Long Island trout have been and still are favorites in the city markets, commanding the highest prices. Within the past thirty to forty years private individuals and Clubs have bought up ponds and streams along the South Side, in the towns of Babylon, Islip, Brookhaven and Southampton, and have expen- ded lage sums in enlarging, cleaning and protecting the ponds and in arrangements for the propogation or protection of trout therein; and now comparatively few public waters can be found in which the taking of natural trout yields any considerable return of either pleasure or profit .- To how great an extent this occupation of the trout ponds and streams of our county by individuals or corporations has gone I am unable to state with exactitude; but a careful estimate of the present cash value of the trout preserves in the county places it at about one million dollars. As long ago as 1837, in its issue of August 5, the Spirit of the Times had an account of a trip of several weeks on Long Island spent in making a tour of the trout ponds and streams, which were described at some length, the writer being strongly impressed by what he saw. He also referred to troll- ing for blue fish on the Great South Bay and to perch fishing in Lake Ron- konkoma, and specified among the fish then more commonly taken from the Bay --- blue fish, black fish, weak fish, (chequet), porgies, sheepshead and striped bass.
On September 16th, 1837, the schooner Oneco, Captain Rogers, from the Grand Banks of Newfoundland, arrived at Greenport with 25, 500 cod- fish to Dr. E. D. Skinner. At that time the bounty on codfish was large enough to stimulate enterprises of this sort, and several were undertaken from Greenport and Sag Harbor. In 1807 there were brought to Sag Har- bor 6,600 quintals of codfish.
Traping fish, or. the use of various devices other than hooks or ordinary nets and seines, has been practiced from the earliest period, indeed, it may fairly be inferred that this mode of fishing was more general in the first than in the second century of the county's history, since in its earlier years the procuring or making of nets and seines was attended by greater relative expense and difficulty than it came to be when improved methods of manu- facturing twine, cordage and nets had cheapened their cost.
By virtue of their ancient patents, confirmed by acts of the Legislature and upheld by judicial decisions, the towns of Brookhaven and Hunting- ton claim and exercise exclusive property rights in the land under water of the bays, &c., within their jurisdiction. Much contention and some dis- turbance have arisen from conflicting views and claims growing out of this ownership by the towns, and out of their management, through Trustees,
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of the business of taking oysters and clams, which, being bottom fish, are held to be proper subjects of local control, From the earliest dates, under these patents, more or less dispute has attended the management of the oyster and clam fisheries, and the controversy Sy continues to this day. But while those engaged in the business differ widely on some points of regu a- tion and government, they agree in opposing outside interference and are tenacious upholders of the town's exclusive jur sdiction. Though some- times grumbling at particular demands they have submitted to the trustee,' authority and have resisted all attempts to bring on intervention by the State Legislature. For the sake of better enforcement of prohibitions on certain obnoxious methods or practices in the fishery, recourse has been had to the Board of Supervisors, who have power to impose larger penal- ties than the Trustees can do; but this is merely to supplement and reinfo ce not to contravene or supplant the latter's authority. As early as 1771 th : Trustees of Brookhaven ordered "that no oysters or clams sh ill be taken "out of ye South Bay, opposite our town, within our patent, unless first "obtaining liberty of us, ye Trustees, or from our order, and whoever sh ill "go contrary to this act shall pty for every such offence ye sum of Twen r "Shillings, to be recovered before any Justice of the Peice as any other " debt." In 1788 the Trustees fixed the charge for each t on of, oysters taken out of the bay, at I shilling 6 pence, and soon afterwards in the same year amended it by making the charge " 2 pence per tub of oysters or clains.
APPENDIX D.
SHIP BUILDING AND TONNAGE.
I have striven with much pertinacity and zeal to recover authen- tic data which might enable me to present a pretty comprehensive and complete vlew of the business of building vessels within the limits of our County; of the builders whose handiwork became a part of the glory of the American comercial marine; of the yards in which they worked; of the names and other particulars of the vessels they built, and of the skillful sea- men who manned and commanded them; and by the kind help of friends at some places I have succeeded in getting tolerably full lists of name, rig and tonnage of vessels launched at those places; but there are others, some of them in my immediate neighborhood, at which I have so far failed to get even approximately correct lists and have therefore felt obliged to omit all fu ther reference to them. I do not despair of eventually receiving facts enough to give a fair idea of the business at these places, but it is a slow p oces; and will take much time. It is not claimed that the lists herewith given are complete, or are 'absolutely correct, but they are based on careful in- quiry and research by friends at the places named, and may be accepted as reliable in all essential particulars,
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PATCHOGUE.
Vessels built at Patchogue by Boss O. Perry Smith from 1850 to 1872. Name.
Rig.
Date.
Tonnage.
Schr.
1850
Ida Maillor
160
1853
R. H. Vermilyea
140
1854
A. Mason
340
1855
J. A. Stanley
320
1856
T. D. Wagner
476
1857
Kate Merrill
360
1858
A. Stewart
170
1859
Phebe
180
1860
S. T. Baker
300
1860
Daniel Holmes
350
Brig
1864
John Shay
480
Schr
1864
Not named (when launched
80
1865
Harry Doremus
85
1865
Not named (when launched)
55
1866
Alida
70
1867
Ricardo Barros
170
1868
Minnie
36c
1869
Phebe
240
1872
J. W. Boyle
: 120
Total 4.556
During the same period he built 19 sloops for the oyster trade, ranging from 20 to 40 tons and averaging say 30 tons, or 570 in all, making the total tonnage constructed by him in that time something over 5,000. The larg- er vessels were employed in coastwise trade, as fruiters from the West Indies, or in other lines of foreign trade. Some of them have been remark- ably successful as sailors; thus: the R. H. Vermilyea made the trip from Cuba to New York in 6 days; the Phebe (2nd) made the trip from San Blas to New York in 12 days, the quickest passage between the two ports; and others have made notably quick voyages.
Edward Post built at Patchogue in 1882 a schooner yacht of about 160 tons. In the same year Martenus Smith, son of O. P. Smith, built the schooner Grace Bailey, 120 tons. A very large number of sloops and small schooners. designed mostly for the oyster trade, have been built in and near Patchogue; any exact figures of number or tonnage would be im- possible, but the aggregate would probably count up several thousand tons. To Edward T. Moore, Surveyor of Customs at that port, I am indebted for the following:
Statement of Tonnage at the Port of Patchogue on June 30, 1875, the year of its establishment as a Port of Delivery and each year thereafter.
Date,
No. of Vessels.
Tonnage.
June 30, 1875
57
934.00
"
1876
134
2,523. 12
1877
16I
2,716.96
1878
179
2,766.00
1879
209
2,925.26
66
1880
2C7
2,730.39
1881
201
2,485.70
-
108 . 1882
APPENDIX. - SHIP BUILDING.
1883
202 208
2,415.42 2,611.45
OTHER SOUTH BAY PORTS.
At Bellport several large schooners have been built, but I cannot give their names, etc. Numerous small schooners and sloops, chiefly for the oyster trade or for bay freighting,' have been built at Bellport, Moriches, Patchogue, Sayville, Islip, Bay Shore, Babylon and Amityville, but the work of ascertaining their names and tonnage would bealmost an intermin- able and hopeless one. It is considered a low estimate to reckon the total tonnage of this class of vessels constructed on the shores of the Great South Bay in Suffolk County within the past hundred and fifty years at not less than fifty thousand tons-in fact, the strong probability may be that for the past fifty years an average of thirty boats, averaging twenty tons, have been built each year.
PORT JEFFERSON.
Lying at the head of a land-locked bay of deep and quiet water, with sufficiently bold shore, this place seems to have been designed by nature for a location adapted to the ship-builder's art. The earliest settlers recog- nized these natural advantages, and while yet there were but five houses at what was then known as Drowned Meadow, in 1797, John Wilsie is re- ported to have built on the east side of the harbor, at the place now locally called " Homan's Hollow," a sloop loyally named the King George-the forerunner of a large and noble fleet that, receiving their baptism and christening in the waters of Port Jefferson Bay have since borne the hailing name of Brookhaven to all the seas ploughed by the keels of commerce. Speaking commercially not less than in respect to ship-building, the chief if not the only drawback to a much greater development than has actually taken place in and on this bay, and in and on the bays that connect with it, has been the narrow and shoal channel at its entrance from the Sound. So far back as 1835, in October of that year the Jeffersonian had an article in favor of an appropriation to build a breakwater at Drown Meadow, which name at a public meeting in the following March was changed to Port Jefferson. On other occasions public attention was drawn to the de- sirability of improving the entrance to this fine harbor, but no action was taken until the 4Ist Congress ordered a survey and upon a favorable report made an appropriation to begin the construction of a breakwater on the. east side of the channel. Subsequent appropriations have been made and expended, and the channel is materially iniproved, but a further sum is needed to be used for dredging a still wider and deeper passage-way.
Through the unwearied efforts of Mr. James E. Bayles, himself prom- inently connected with the industry in question, who has had recourse to Custom House records so far as they were available, and to local records and traditions, verified whenever possible by conference with the oldest residents of the locality, I am enabled to present a list of vessels built at Port Jefferson from the launching of " King George" down to the present time. It is believed to be substantially correct and complete though some of the dates, especially those between 1840 and 1850, may not be entirely accurate. Its preparation extended considerably over a year and required much patient labor.
Capt. John Wilsie in 1799 or 1800 and following years built the schooner Culloden and sloops Collector, Ontario, Oneida and Jane.
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Capt. Thomas Bell moved there in 1802 and built the following : Sloops, Argus, Hector, Hussa; ship Boyne and a gunboat of about 30 tons for the U. S. Government, which was begun in 1807, but, not being called for sooner, was not finished till 1814.
Richard Mather began in 1809. He built the following:
Rig.
Name. Date. Rig
Name.
Date
Sloop
Invincible
18IO Sloop Independence 1812
General Pike 1814
Adeona 1815
Sloop, Catharine Rogers, 1816.
[He was the father of John R. Mather, the present noted builder, and was killed by an accidental fall from the last named vessel when nearly ready for launching. ]
James Still in 1809 or 1810 built the sloop Elector. Thomas Bayles in 1816 built the sloop Beaver.
TITUS MATHER.
Rig.
Name.
Date.
Rig.
Name.
Date
Sloop
Calhoun
1823
Sloop
Schr.
Triumph (Nov.) 1824
Brig
Mongomery (Apl. ) 1824 Amos Palmer
1825
Sloop, Escort, 1826.
CAPT. WM. L. JONES.
Rig.
Name.
Date.
Rig.
Name.
Date
Schr.
Virginius
1827
Schr.
Pearl.
1862
Charles E. Thorn 1834
Sloop
Radiant
1836
ELISHA BAYLES.
Rig.
Name.
Date.
Rig.
Namė.
Date
Sloop
Alonzo
1830
Sloop
James Gorham
1834
EDGAR BROWN.
Rig.
Name.
Date.
Rig.
Name.
Date
Sloop (smack) Uranius
1830
Sloop (smack) Vesta
1832
EDWARD POST.
Name.
Date
Cybele
1829
Rig.
Name.
Date.
Rig.
Name.
Date
Sloop
Invincible
1832 ·
Sloop
Verille
1833
Juvenile
1834
Ariel
1838
Export
1840
Mary H. Williams 1848
James Nelson
184 }
Jacob Duryea
1851
Sloop Nancy Anna, 11852.
Rig. Rrig
Aeolus
1839
LEWIS HULSE.
Cumberland
1832
Sloop
Editor
1834
Register
1835
Schr
Southerner
1840
Pizarro
1841
Flordia
1845
C. L. Hulse
1848
Wm. Thomas
1849
Franklin Bell
1853
D. C. Hulse
1855
. ..
ISAAC RITCH. Name.
Date
Sloop Schr
Rig. Sloop
BENJAMIN BROWN.
APPENDIX. - SHIP BUILDING,
SMITH & DARLING.
Rig.
Name.
Date.
Rig.
Name.
Date
Brig
Florida
1832
Brig
Amelia Strong
1833
Sloop
Emeline
1833
Sloop
S. B. Packet Active
1834
Brig
Darien
1835
Congress
1835
Schr
Volta®
1836
Unity
1836.
Sloop
Sylph
1837
66
Senate
1838
Brig
Long Island
1839
Schr
Smith & Darling 1840
Rig. Schr.
Name.
Date.
Rıg.
Name.
Date
Martha Maria
1843
Schr.
Panama
r844
Alert
1845
J. E. Smith
1845
Aratus
1846
Orianna
1846
MATTHEW DARLING.
Rig. Schr.
Name.
Date.
Rig.
Name.
Date
Maria M. Klots
1.842
Schr.
Charles Hopkins 1842
Iowa
1844
Mary Eliza
1842
Martha Jane
1845
Gen. Marion
1845
Corbulo
I.846
Charles Mills
1846
Jacob Smith
1847
Mary J. Peck
1846
Schooner, Oregon, 1848.
SYLVESTER SMITH & J. DARLING.
Rig. Schr.
Name.
Date
Athalia
1846
J. DARLING. Name.
Date
Sloop
CHARLE:
ING.
Rig.
Name.
Date.
Rig
Name.
Date
Sehr.
New Republic
1848
Schr.
Governor
1848
Sloop
Home
1848
William Tyson
1849
Schr.
Aurora Borealis
1849
Galota
1850
CHARLES DARLING.
Rig.
Name.
Date. . Rig.
Name.
Date
Schr.
Sea Flower
1851
Schr.
Selah B. Strong
1852
JAMES M. & C. L. BAYLES.
Rig.
Name.
Tons.
Date
Sloop
Miami
68
1836
Native
61
1838
Brig
Bel del Mar
125
1839
Schr.
Denmark
135
1841
Sloop
Adelia
48
1843
Schr.
Belle
I26
1845 or 1846
Telegraph
143
1846
Sloop
Mary R. Kirby
65
1846
Schr.
Edward L. Frost
150
1847
William E. Collis
148.
1847
Gleam
1837
Report
1837
Empire
1834
1834
SYLVESTER SMITH.
Rig.
1840 or 1841
IIİ
Schr. (yacht)
Breeze
100
1848
Rainbow
145
1849
Francis A. Baker
80
1849
Sloop
Phebe Ann
42
1849
Eliza A. Jane
76
1849
Senator
70
1850
Schr.
C. L. Bayles
154
1850
James M. Bayles
170'
1851
Maria L. Bayles
176
1851
Willett S. Robbins
180
1852
Stephen H. Townsend
260
1852
Stephen Taber
304
1852
(yacht)
Elliptic
II2
1853
Breeze
254
1853
Flying Arrow
60
1853
Henry Janes
261
1854
Thomas W. Alcott
203
1854
Lucinda A. Bayles
286
1861
JAMES M. BAYLES.
Rig. Schr.
Name.
Tons.
Date
M. H. Reed
221
1854
A. Hammond
219
1854
Moonlight
263
1855
Mary E. Jones.
265
1856
E. A. Conkling
260
1856
Yankee
85
1857
Anna Shepard
167
1858
Ann Amelia
89
1859
Glenwood
148
1861
JOSEPH ROWLAND.
Name.
Tons.
Date
Irene
59
1852
L. M. ROWLAND
Name.
Tons.
Date
Flora Temple
23
1861
Starlight
32
1865
JAMES M. BAYLES & SON (JAMES E.)
Name.
Tons.
Month
Year
Annie Lewis
313
July
1863
Anna W. Collins
200
April
1864
Julia E. Willetts
243
July
1864
Julia A. Rider
276
Dec.
1864
Annie V .. Bergen
184
Jan.
1865
Katie J. Hoyt
220
Aug.
1865
Ann E. Valentine
316
1866
Circle .
: 42
May
1867
Matilda Brooks
333
July
1867
George H. Mills
296
Aug.
1867
Susan Bergen
247
..
1868
Brig Schr. Sloop Schr.
Rig. Sloop (yacht)
Rig. Schr.
Rig. Schr.
New Tonnage.
Brig
APPENDIX. - SHIP BUILDING.
Sloop Schr.
II2
APPENDIX. - SHIP BUILDING.
Bark
Carib
294
Oct. June
1869
Alert
43
1870
Jennie Rosalene
342
Aug
1870
Millie Frank
60
Sept.
1870
Henrietta
30
June
1871
Thomas P. Ball
430
Aug.
1871
Steamer
Thyra
205
Dec.
1871
Bark
Nomad
476
April
1872
Sloop
Ada Rhame
25
May
1872
Eliza Rhodes
25
June
1872
Schr.
Mary Emmor
52
June
1873
De Mory Gray
402
Nov.
1873
¿ C
Rosa Eppinger
293
May
1874
Annie A. Booth
208
June
1874
Clara E. Bergen
481
Sept.
1874
James E. Bayles
431
Nov.
1874
Manuel R. Cuza
298
Oct.
1875
William E. Clowes
57I
Dec.
1875
Eleanor
350
May
1876
Ship (whaler)
Horatio
349
July
1877
Bark
Fleetwing
328
Oct.
1877
Schr.
Comet
301
Nov.
1877
Jimmie
20
June
1878
Nellie Floyd
457
March
1879
H. & J. Blendermann
399
Dec.
1879
Gracie N.
415
Jan,
1880
Transit
30
May
1880
Chatham
II3
July
1880
Waccamaw
45.9
Aug.
1881
Atalanta
352
Dec.
1881
Sloop
(Yacht)
Whitby
30
June "
. 1882
Lillie Holmes
407
Sept.
1882
Ocean Child
37
Nov.
1882
Nellie W. Craig
468
Aug.
1883
Elsie A. Bayles
302
Oct.
1883
Nettie Shipman
322
1884
JOHN R. MATHER.
Rig.
Name.
Date
Schr.
Caroline E. Thorn
1838
Alfred F. Thorn
1839
Excelsior
1840
Brig
Tons.
Schr.
Lady Suffolk
100
1846
Sloop
Thomas A. Hawkins
1849
Wm. H. Sanford
98
1850
Schr.
John R. Mather
1851
Magnolia
139
1852
Neptune's Bride
206
1853
War Steed
153
1854
1873
William H. Keeney
314
April
1868
Schr.
Henry A. Taber
129
Wm. L. Jones
1841
Brig
Schr.
.
I13
APPENDIX. SHIP BUILDING.
Millard Fillmore
240
.1856
Willow Harp
139
1858
B. Jones
216
1861
Wm. M. Jones
374
1871
.44
B. I. Hazard
-392
1872
Brig
John McDermott
564
1878
Schr.
George R. Congdon Bessie Whiting
: 560
1882
D. K. Baker
493
1883
J. H. Parker
.521
1884
C. L. BAYLES.
Big:
Name.
Tons. Date, .Rig.
Name.
Tone.
Date.
Schr. Edward Slade
285
1855
: JEREMIAH DARLING.
Susan E. Jayne
204
1855 Bark James L. Davis
.461
1857
Anna M. Edwards
119
1856
D. JJex
222
1858
Reindeer
197
1856
Holland :
360 1859
Yankee Blade
275
1857 Brig Eaglet
198
1859
BAYLES & WINES.
DARLING & WINES.
Schr. Ida A. Jayne
211
1863 Schr. C. M. Newins
384 1860
Lavinia Bell
1.54
1864 .Brig Cacique
201
1860
" (yacht) John Swan S. T. Wines
30 1865 Schr. S. C. Evans
281 1860
Madison Holmes . 189
1864 AHIRA -HAWKINS & . WM. DARLING.
.C. L. BAYLES & SON.
Schr. Montezuma I20 1847
Schr. H. N. Squire
308
1867
Northern Light
1849
Brig Helen M. Rowley
.390
1867
Francis H. Hopkins
1848
L. L. Squires
425
1868
Esther Burr
1850
M. M. Francis
439
1869
Merach :
1852
Schr. Nymph
140
1870 AHIRA HAWKINS & J. L. DARLING.
A. M. Dickerson
166
1871 Schr. S. L. Stevens
132
1852
Wm. H. Phare
I54
1871
R. H. Wilson
198
1853
T. Harris Kirk
350
1873
John L. Darling
199
1854
Emma Aery
33º
1874
Naiad Queen
160
1854
BEDELL & DARLING.
Sloop Pearl 65
1849
Schr. J. W. McKee
1850 Schr. Rachel Jane
III
1850
M. M. Freeman
1,60
1851
I. N. Seymour
71
1853
Helen Mar
195
1852
Copy
95
1854
Sowassett
193
1852
L. N. Godfrey
140
1854
'Maria Jewett
192
1853
Transit
297
1855
Ralph Post
426
1,854
Alexander Blue .. I3I
1856
.John Roe
297
18.54
Bark" Anna
42I
1854 Schr. Narragansett
1855
Schr. Prowess
267
1855
.. Sarah Mills
216
1.855
"J ". "Challenge (about)
265
1855
Spencer D.
145
1856
"J. Darling
300
1856
"Estelle
167
1857
Bark Clara R. Sutil
257
1856
Gen. Gilmore
33 1863
Glenwood -
360
1856
Florence V. Turner 88
I865
JOHN E. SMITH.
Laurel
71
1868
Schr. Wm. D. Cargill
.190
1854 . " Coral
34 1878
" , Mary Emma
257
1854 1. -
LauraA, Burlingame.191 HENRY HALLOCK.
1864
Sunny South
227 18.54
JOHN E. DARLING & Co.
Addie Schlarfer
178
1874
224 1864 Brig Water Lilly
197
1861
4:50
1879
Brig
191
114
APPENDIX. - SHIP BUILDING.
Rig. Name. Tons- Date. Rig.
Tons. Date.
AMIRA HAWKINS & E. KETCHAM.
Schr. Virginia
295 1856 Schr. Mary Alice
. 35
1870
Isabel Alberto
231 1859
Onward
52 1871
Anna C. Leverett
199
1860
West Side
153 1871
EDWARD HAWKINS.
H. S. Tuthill
43
1872
Schr. Island Belle
142
1854
Lillie Ernestine
54
1872
Sloop Sarah F. Jayne
24
1851
Smith & Darling
44
1873
SYLVESTER T. WINES.
Francis Smith
49 1873
Schr. J. C. Havens
44
1866
Charley Banks
46 1873
L. A. VanBrunt
344
1867
Ilo
35
1874
E. B. Darling
184
1874
Henrietta Hill
51
1868
" Mary C. Decker
92
1875
H. S. Marlor
350
1869
Emma Southard
72 1877
T. D. Harrison
512
1873
John Eastwood
48
1877
Sloop L. J. Dayton
25
1879
Schr. James M. Holmes 205 Quickstep 132
1858
B. H. Hageman
25
1879
" (yacht) Halcyon
Schr.
1881
Silver Spray
118
1869 Stmr. Hoyt Brothers (ab't) 45
1882
J. J. Harris
141
1870
Addie B.
35
1882
William Young
68
1871
Nonowantuc
226
1883
Jane C. Harris
44
1872
S. S. Brewster
26
1883
Robert T. Clark
190
1873
May Queen S. R. BIRD.
25
1884
Game Cock
61
1873
La Ninfa
126
1877 Schr. Luella Nickerson
25
1884
Mary C. Crowley
70
1878
JOHN MARVIN.
Schr. Walter Smith
31 1866
The foregoing list includes 61 sloops, 2 sloop smacks, 2 sloop yachts, 215 schooners, 2 schooner yachts, 19 brigs, 9 barks, 2 ships, 6 steamers, I gunboat-with an aggregate, so far as stated, of 43, 291 tons, to which add 8,230 for the vessels unreported, averaging sloops at 50 and schooners at 100 tons (which figures are doubtless below rather than above the fact), and we have a total of 51,521 tons of shipping constructed at Port Jefferson.
Abstract of Tonnage Built and Enrolled at the Port of Port Jefferson.
Year.
Tonnage.
Year.
Tonnage.
Year.
Tonnage.
1857*
548 32
1858
828 86
1859
506 68
1860
812 74
1861
859 27
1862
28 49
1863
964 08
1864
1190 32
1865
1008 07
1866
1001 65
1867
1819 49
1868
585 70
1869
419 57
1870*
446 00
1871*
1166 00
1872*
339 50
1878
465 93
1874
3090 40
1875
961 32
1876
850 00
1877
1025 66
1878
738 90
1879
876 00
1880
558 00
1881
459 00
1882
1489 58
1883
764 00
-
Total recorded 27 years 28,802 98.
Office established in 1852 but no records previous to 1857.
* Imcomplete. Since 1854 only about one-half the vessels built at Port Jefferson have been recorded in that office, a large number sailing under registers, in foreign trade, being recorded at New York or other ports.
Florence Shay
405
1867
1863
MATHER & WOOD.
JOSEPH J. HARRIS.
Name. EMMETT B. DARLING.
115
APPENDIX. - SHIP BUILDING.
Tonnage Outstanding at the Close of each Fiscal Year, 1858 to 1883, In- clusive, Omitting Fractional Parts of Tons, for the Port of Port Jeffer- son.
Year.
Tonnage.
Year.
Tonnage.
Year.
Tonnage.
1858
14,225
1859
14,910
1860
16,715
1861
19,795
1862
22,091
1863
25,146
1864
29,476
1865
17,073
1866
12,806
1867
14,660
1868
15,281
1872*
14,850
1873
15,278
1874
17,527
1875
21,721
1876
17,847
1877
15,486
1878
12,986
1879
11,435
1880
12,503
1881
10,585
1882
15,565
1888
14,858
* No abstracts on record for the years 1869, 1870 and 1871.
NORTHPORT.
Favored by nature with remarkably beautiful surroundings and oc- cupying an admirable position where a lovely valley descends to the shore of a large, deep and sheltered bay, Northport offers such obvious facilities for shipbuilding, that, as early as 1814, before the close of the last war with Great Britain and while yet there were but a handful of inhabitants-Bayles (Sketches of Suffolk County, p. 162) says that twenty years later, in 1834, there were only eight dwellings in the place-one or more vessels had been built there. From Mr. Wm. E. Parrotte I have the following list of vessels built at Northport between 1814 and 1884, by parties other than the estab- lished builders and whose names are not given :
Rig.
Name.
Tons. Rig. Name.
Tone.
Sloop Brilliant
65 Sloop Export
40
Chancellor
55 Schr. Coralla
120
Angeline
25 Sloop Peri
85
Remark
60
Martha Ann
40
Eleot
30 Sohr. Stephen Francie
150
Gazelle
25
Eliza Katherine
110
..
H. T. Young
55
Kate
140
Emma Smith
60 Sloop Irene
50
Bulldog
10
Water Witch
40
Harriet Amella
9
Silas Wright
160
Angeline
12
Martha
40
Henry Herbert
15
Northport
20
Crescent
15
Motto
15
Kate Cannon
.€
Alcamus
60
Ida Viola
21
Borealis
70
Armenia
25
Grey Gull
30
G. B. MoClellan
20
S. PRIOR HARTT.
George Milner
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