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June 17th (search for this): chapter 24
ugh Medford and up to Concord, N. H. the following year. At that time Mr. Sullivan kept a journal of his cruise which is as follows: June 13.In the evening set off from Canal Head, Chelmsford, with two boats in tow. June 14.Overtook a loaded boat and took her in tow. June 15.Monday at 9 o'clock arrived at Concord, distance 50 miles: passing 21 locks and 3 canals. June 16.Went with loading to the Upper Landing, 6 miles, in 1 hour 3 minutes, unloaded and returned in 38 minutes. June 17.Afternoon 5 o'clock. Went up river 7 miles, in 1 hour 15 min., 23 members of General Court on board. June 18.Morning. Went up river 7 1/2 miles in 1 hour 8 min., 32 passengers on board. Afternoon. Went up 8 miles with 157 passengers and a band of music, in two boats in tow. June 19.Morning. Towed a loaded boat to the upper landing 6 miles, 20 members on board, unloaded and returned with 91 passengers. Afternoon. Went up and down the river with two boats with awnings, the Governor and C
July, 1914 AD (search for this): chapter 24
New Bedford to Nantucket without financial success, and then came to Salem on September 15. The Eagle remained there two days and went presumably to Boston with but two passengers. The following year she made a few trips to Hingham (as alluded to) and in two succeeding years ran to Nahant, Marblehead and Salem, when she was sold and broken up. The Eagle was smaller than the first, being a little over ninety feet long and less than nineteen feet wide. See Essex Historical Collections, July, 1914. We now come to Medford's early steamboat days and the third steamboat, the Merrimack, Captain John L. Sullivan, that ran on the inland route and made a continuous voyage treble the length of those of the Massachusetts and Eagle. She was a still smaller craft, less than a dozen feet wide and fifty or sixty feet long, and of light draught, owing to the physical limitation of her route, the fresh shallow water of the Middlesex canal and the Merrimack river. The former had been in opera
June 18th (search for this): chapter 24
ise which is as follows: June 13.In the evening set off from Canal Head, Chelmsford, with two boats in tow. June 14.Overtook a loaded boat and took her in tow. June 15.Monday at 9 o'clock arrived at Concord, distance 50 miles: passing 21 locks and 3 canals. June 16.Went with loading to the Upper Landing, 6 miles, in 1 hour 3 minutes, unloaded and returned in 38 minutes. June 17.Afternoon 5 o'clock. Went up river 7 miles, in 1 hour 15 min., 23 members of General Court on board. June 18.Morning. Went up river 7 1/2 miles in 1 hour 8 min., 32 passengers on board. Afternoon. Went up 8 miles with 157 passengers and a band of music, in two boats in tow. June 19.Morning. Towed a loaded boat to the upper landing 6 miles, 20 members on board, unloaded and returned with 91 passengers. Afternoon. Went up and down the river with two boats with awnings, the Governor and Council and other gentlemen on board, in all 211 passengers. June 21.Towed Capt. Merrill to the upper landing:
1818 AD (search for this): chapter 24
on thereof. He was then pastor of a Hingham church and was instrumental in securing, for a time, the coming of the second steamboat in Boston bay to that place in 1818. It may seem incredible today that a steamboat should traverse the entire length of Medford territory (greater then than now) without floating in either the riv wrecked. Neither this first, nor the second and smaller steamboat called the Eagle, were built in the old Bay State. The latter made some trips in the summer of 1818 from New Bedford to Nantucket without financial success, and then came to Salem on September 15. The Eagle remained there two days and went presumably to Boston wclusive. The books of record, accounts and papers of the canal company are preserved in the county offices at Cambridge. Search in the carefully audited bills of 1818, reveals one of William Phipps for services rendered and date of each entered. He seems to have been a general utility man, as his services were with parties of l
June 15th (search for this): chapter 24
of the scene then living. Some years later it was our good fortune to find in an English work on the steam engine, an illustrated description of one American—the Morey—engine, such as propelled the Merrimack through Medford and up to Concord, N. H. the following year. At that time Mr. Sullivan kept a journal of his cruise which is as follows: June 13.In the evening set off from Canal Head, Chelmsford, with two boats in tow. June 14.Overtook a loaded boat and took her in tow. June 15.Monday at 9 o'clock arrived at Concord, distance 50 miles: passing 21 locks and 3 canals. June 16.Went with loading to the Upper Landing, 6 miles, in 1 hour 3 minutes, unloaded and returned in 38 minutes. June 17.Afternoon 5 o'clock. Went up river 7 miles, in 1 hour 15 min., 23 members of General Court on board. June 18.Morning. Went up river 7 1/2 miles in 1 hour 8 min., 32 passengers on board. Afternoon. Went up 8 miles with 157 passengers and a band of music, in two boats in tow. J
June 16th (search for this): chapter 24
the steam engine, an illustrated description of one American—the Morey—engine, such as propelled the Merrimack through Medford and up to Concord, N. H. the following year. At that time Mr. Sullivan kept a journal of his cruise which is as follows: June 13.In the evening set off from Canal Head, Chelmsford, with two boats in tow. June 14.Overtook a loaded boat and took her in tow. June 15.Monday at 9 o'clock arrived at Concord, distance 50 miles: passing 21 locks and 3 canals. June 16.Went with loading to the Upper Landing, 6 miles, in 1 hour 3 minutes, unloaded and returned in 38 minutes. June 17.Afternoon 5 o'clock. Went up river 7 miles, in 1 hour 15 min., 23 members of General Court on board. June 18.Morning. Went up river 7 1/2 miles in 1 hour 8 min., 32 passengers on board. Afternoon. Went up 8 miles with 157 passengers and a band of music, in two boats in tow. June 19.Morning. Towed a loaded boat to the upper landing 6 miles, 20 members on board, unloaded and
June 27th, 1819 AD (search for this): chapter 24
he disadvantages of novelty. Previously to the commencement of this trip, she towed loaded boats up river, against freshet, two and four at a time, faster than they could have been impelled by muscular labor in low water, and at a time when they could not have proceeded otherwise. The object is to give to the canal and navigation the degree of regularity and despatch alone wanting to turn the whole course of transportation from Boston in that direction upon the canal. Jno L. Sullivan. June 27, 1819. The Massachusetts was built at Philadelphia, the Eagle at Norwich, Conn., but the Merrimack was built somewhere along the course of the canal—not impossibly at Medford. As yet we have submitted no proof that she came to Medford, but we consider that the following is conclusive. The books of record, accounts and papers of the canal company are preserved in the county offices at Cambridge. Search in the carefully audited bills of 1818, reveals one of William Phipps for services ren
June 13th (search for this): chapter 24
tless resultant upon the tar burning fixture alluded to. Probably at our interview (in 1900) she was (in that locality) the only witness of the scene then living. Some years later it was our good fortune to find in an English work on the steam engine, an illustrated description of one American—the Morey—engine, such as propelled the Merrimack through Medford and up to Concord, N. H. the following year. At that time Mr. Sullivan kept a journal of his cruise which is as follows: June 13.In the evening set off from Canal Head, Chelmsford, with two boats in tow. June 14.Overtook a loaded boat and took her in tow. June 15.Monday at 9 o'clock arrived at Concord, distance 50 miles: passing 21 locks and 3 canals. June 16.Went with loading to the Upper Landing, 6 miles, in 1 hour 3 minutes, unloaded and returned in 38 minutes. June 17.Afternoon 5 o'clock. Went up river 7 miles, in 1 hour 15 min., 23 members of General Court on board. June 18.Morning. Went up river 7 1/2 mil
June 14th (search for this): chapter 24
in 1900) she was (in that locality) the only witness of the scene then living. Some years later it was our good fortune to find in an English work on the steam engine, an illustrated description of one American—the Morey—engine, such as propelled the Merrimack through Medford and up to Concord, N. H. the following year. At that time Mr. Sullivan kept a journal of his cruise which is as follows: June 13.In the evening set off from Canal Head, Chelmsford, with two boats in tow. June 14.Overtook a loaded boat and took her in tow. June 15.Monday at 9 o'clock arrived at Concord, distance 50 miles: passing 21 locks and 3 canals. June 16.Went with loading to the Upper Landing, 6 miles, in 1 hour 3 minutes, unloaded and returned in 38 minutes. June 17.Afternoon 5 o'clock. Went up river 7 miles, in 1 hour 15 min., 23 members of General Court on board. June 18.Morning. Went up river 7 1/2 miles in 1 hour 8 min., 32 passengers on board. Afternoon. Went up 8 miles with 157 pa
1874 AD (search for this): chapter 24
Medford steamboat days. by Moses Whitcher Mann. THE sails of Medford built ships have whitened every sea, but today not one remains in service. We know of but one (possibly two) which were propelled by steam; but these received their engines elsewhere, and never plied on our river. From time to time the tug-boats have come up the Mystic, towing the coal or lumber laden vessels, or assisted at launchings. One even came as far as Auburn street in 1874, towing scows from East Boston with lumber for the earlier houses of Boston avenue, and this was the last to come above Cradock bridge. But these are not the boats or days of our composite subject, for while the latter part may doubtless be plural the former must ever remain singular—and the circumstances attending them equally singular. Medford's first historian makes no mention thereof. He was then pastor of a Hingham church and was instrumental in securing, for a time, the coming of the second steamboat in Boston bay to that
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