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1900 AD (search for this): chapter 24
rded. We had several interviews with one we had long known, at that time over ninety years of age and in possession of her faculties, and her testimony is entirely credible. Mrs. Harriet (Wright) Smith, Woburn. She distinctly recalled the passing of this steamboat through the deep cut of the canal just beside her father's house, and spoke particularly of the noise and smoke it made. The latter was doubtless 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.O
September 15th (search for this): chapter 24
course of nearly five miles through old Medford town. Only one year earlier (July 27, 1817) had steam navigation from Boston to Salem made beginning, and proving a failure financially, the Massachusetts was sold, and on the way to Mobile was 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 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, th
1827 AD (search for this): chapter 24
defense. A steamboat line on the inland route would open the Merrimack valley direct to Boston, as locks just constructed made navigation possible to New Hampshire's capital. At that time Lowell and Lawrence were not on the map at all. But how do we know this? Some fifteen years since a Medford man, Wm. J. Cheney. (now an octogenarian) said: My grandfather told me that they used to run steamboats on the canal. As his grandfather, Joseph Wyatt, was a master mechanic on the canal in 1827, the story was the more interesting and credible. For a time persistent inquiry among the aged people long resident along the old canal, failed to throw light on the subject. An allusion in Amory's Life of Governor Sullivan to many judicious inventions by the canal manager (the governor's son), led to further search in Boston Public Library. There we found his printed statements of the same, and also that he had acquired a water power in Medford and had begun to build steam engines for u
1865 AD (search for this): chapter 24
llivan to many judicious inventions by the canal manager (the governor's son), led to further search in Boston Public Library. There we found his printed statements of the same, and also that he had acquired a water power in Medford and had begun to build steam engines for use on the canal. This was on the Aberjona river, a quarter of a mile up from the aqueduct that carried the canal over that stream. This water power was destroyed by the explosion of a keg of powder beneath the dam in 1865, at the instance of the Charlestown Water Board. Mr. Sullivan's steamboat Merrimack was of the type of canal boat then in use. He already had some unsatisfactory experience with a heavy engine from Philadelphia and had acquired the patent of Samuel Morey's revolving engine. It was one of this type that propelled this third Massachusetts steamboat through Medford at a time before steam service was established in Boston harbor or but one steamboat had ever been seen there. It is also int
June 22nd (search for this): chapter 24
ard. 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: loaded and towed him to Turkey Falls, 15 miles: got back at 12 o'clock. June 22.At 5 in the morning took a party of members up and down the river 7 miles. Afternoon. Took a party of 215 on board with music. June 23.Left Concord with two loaded boats in tow. June 24.Arrived at Head of Middlesex. The three loaded boats towed up stream carried thirteen tons each. Justly proud of his achievement, Captain Sullivan wrote the following letter to the Boston Advertiser . Mr. Hale: The progress of the art of steam navigation is so interesting to our country that
1400 AD (search for this): chapter 24
he boat, &c., &c. One item under date of August 11, 1818, at once fixed our attention. It is this: 1 day to Medford with steamboat, $1.50. The bill bears the check mark of examination and was duly paid. Thus it appears that the little steamboat Merrimack has the unique distinction of steaming through Medford waters on August 11, 1818, one month and six days before the Eagle, (which was but little larger) made her first appearance in Boston harbor. Through this little old town of barely 1400 people with its ship building industry but a few years in progress, close beside, and never far from, but over and across our tidal river, beside our beautiful lake and through the enchanting woodlands that bordered it, to but not into the smaller river then within our bounds, came the precursor of the modern tow-boat, at that time the only steamboat plying in the waters of the old Bay State. The query will be raised, Why was not this apparently successful navigation of canal and river con
June 21st (search for this): chapter 24
n., 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: loaded and towed him to Turkey Falls, 15 miles: got back at 12 o'clock. June 22.At 5 in the morning took a party of members up and down the river 7 miles. Afternoon. Took a party of 215 on board with music. June 23.Left Concord with two loaded boats in tow. June 24.Arrived at Head of Middlesex. The three loaded boats towed up stream carried thirteen tons each. Justly proud of his achievement, Captain Sullivan wrote the following letter to
August 11th, 1818 AD (search for this): chapter 24
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 ladies, the cadets, cleaning the boat, &c., &c. One item under date of August 11, 1818, at once fixed our attention. It is this: 1 day to Medford with steamboat, $1.50. The bill bears the check mark of examination and was duly paid. Thus it appears that the little steamboat Merrimack has the unique distinction of steaming through Medford waters on August 11, 1818, one month and six days before the Eagle, (which was but little larger) made her first appearance in Boston harbor. Through this little old town of barely 1400 people with its ship building industry but a few years in progress, close beside, and never far from, but over and across our tidal river, beside our beautiful lake and through the enchanting woodlands that bordered it, to but not into the smaller river then within our bounds, came the precurs
June 24th (search for this): chapter 24
ded 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: loaded and towed him to Turkey Falls, 15 miles: got back at 12 o'clock. June 22.At 5 in the morning took a party of members up and down the river 7 miles. Afternoon. Took a party of 215 on board with music. June 23.Left Concord with two loaded boats in tow. June 24.Arrived at Head of Middlesex. The three loaded boats towed up stream carried thirteen tons each. Justly proud of his achievement, Captain Sullivan wrote the following letter to the Boston Advertiser . Mr. Hale: The progress of the art of steam navigation is so interesting to our country that I need not apologize for sending you the enclosed extract from the journal of the Merrimack, at the commencement of the regular application of the power on the canal. This boat is of the
July 27th, 1817 AD (search for this): chapter 24
econd 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 river or the lake, itself but the third in Massachusetts waters, and prior to the second in Boston bay. But such was the case nearly a hundred years ago, though today no trace of water remains in its course of nearly five miles through old Medford town. Only one year earlier (July 27, 1817) had steam navigation from Boston to Salem made beginning, and proving a failure financially, the Massachusetts was sold, and on the way to Mobile was 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 with but tw
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