| William Augustus Mowry - Steamboats - 1874 - 40 pages
...of this man ascending Connecticut river, between that place and Fairlee, in a little boat just large enough to contain himself, and the rude machinery...been mentioned in connection with steam navigation.' " MR. MANN, further on in this article, refers to visits made by Fulton to Morey at Orford, during... | |
| Henry Harrison Metcalf, John Norris McClintock - New Hampshire - 1883 - 446 pages
...wood for a fire, was witnessed by the writer in his boyhood, and byothers who yet survive. This was before Fulton's name had ever been, mentioned in connection with steam> navigation." He was so laughed at by his townsmen when he announced his intention of riding on the river in a steamboat... | |
| George Henry Preble - Steam-navigation - 1881 - 290 pages
...handful of wood for a fire, was witnessed by the writer in his boyhood, and by others who yet survive.8 This was as early as 1793 or earlier, and before Fulton's name had been mentioned in connection with steam navigation." The records of the Patent Office at Washington... | |
| Henry Harrison Metcalf, John Norris McClintock - Local history - 1883 - 454 pages
...wood for a fire, was witnessed by the writer in his boyhood, and by others who yet survive. This was before Fulton's name had ever been mentioned in connection with steam navigation." He was so laughed at by his townsmen when he announced his intention of riding on the river in a steamboat... | |
| Local history - 1911 - 354 pages
...1859 at the age of seventy-three years. Mr. Mann was an educated man, and of the strictest integrity, and is reputed to have spent considerable time and...oration at Orford, delivered September 7, 1865. He says: V *S J ,A, K Drawn for f! RANITE STATE MAGAZINE by AC Gow, '09 a little thing constructed by him, and... | |
| Henry Harrison Metcalf, John Norris McClintock - Local history - 1883 - 452 pages
...wood for a fire, was witnessed by the writer in his boyhood, and by others who yet survive. This was before Fulton's name had ever been mentioned in connection with steam navigation." He was so laughed at by his townsmen when he announced his intention of riding on the river in a steamboat... | |
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