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Home / Lossing, Benson John. The Hudson, from the Wilderness to the Sea. New York: Virtue & Yorston, 1866. Internet Archive identifier: hudsonfromwilder00lossi. Illustrated travel-history of the Hudson River valley by the writer and artist Benson J. Lossing, whose chapter on Teller's / Croton Point is a primary source for Senasqua place-name etymology, Sarah Teller's 1682 purchase, and the Underhill vineyard. / Passage

The Hudson, from the Wilderness to the Sea

Lossing, Benson John. The Hudson, from the Wilderness to the Sea. New York: Virtue & Yorston, 1866. Internet Archive identifier: hudsonfromwilder00lossi. Illustrated travel-history of the Hudson River valley by the writer and artist Benson J. Lossing, whose chapter on Teller's / Croton Point is a primary source for Senasqua place-name etymology, Sarah Teller's 1682 purchase, and the Underhill vineyard. 267 words

A boat was constructed at Brown's ship-yard, in New York, and was completed in August, 1807, when it was propelled by its machinery to

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Hobokcn, on the Jersey shore, where John Stevens (Mr. Livingston's brother-in-laTv) had been experimenting in the same direction for fifteen years. That first successful steamboat was named Clermont, in compli-

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ment to Chancellor Livingston, and made her first voyage to Albany at the beginning of September, 1807.-^

At Tivoli is the mansion of John Swift Livingston, Esq., built before

* The Clermunt was 100 feet long, 12 feet wide, and 7 feet deep. The following ads'ertisement appeared in the Albany Gazette on the 1st of September, 1807 : --

' " The North Hirer Steamboat will leave Paulus's Hook

j [.Jersey City] on Friday, the 4th of September, at 9 in the

morning, and arrive at Albany on Satiu-day, at 9 in the afternoon. Pi-ovisions, good berths, and accommodation are provided. The charge to eadi passenger is as follows : -- To Newbtirgh, Dollars, 3 Time, 14 hours. „ Poiiglikeepsie „ 4 >> 17 „ „ Esopus „ 5 „ 20 „

„ Hudson „ 5 J „ 30 „

„ Albany „ 7 „ 36 „

nil cLri ^ uM. '-yu; Fulton's new steamboat," said the same paper, on

the 5th of October, " left New York on the 2nd, at 10 o'clock, A.M., against a strong tide, verj' rough water, and a violent gale from the north. She made a headway, against the most sanguine expectations, and without being rocked by the waves ! "

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