The daily morning journal and courier., 1902-04-17
OLD-IIME HUDSON SL0OPS
PIOUS DUTCH SHIPPERS IN THE
 NEW FORK

Passengors--singIe stickers That
 Sailed to Foreign Ports-An sO-ToI
 sioop's Voyage tO ChinN.
 Among those who sailed the waters of
 the Hudson during the latter part ot
 the eighteenth century and the early
 portion of the nineteenth, before steam
 boats, tow boats and canal barges
 monopolized the carrying trade on the
 river, perhaps none was better or more
 widely known than Captain Anthony
 Van Santvoord, who died in this city
 March IT, 1852, at the age of 91. He was
 the grandson of Rev Cornelius Van
 Santvoord, who was sent out from Hol-
 land to take charge of the Dutch church
 at Schenectady before 1740. Captain Van
 Sanvoord became master of sloop
 while still young man, and by indus
 try and perseverance acquired fair
 competence. He was a steady and con-
 ssteent member of the Dutch Reformed
 church in this city for over seventy
 years.
 Captain Jacob Wendell who died in
 March, 1926, was a river skipper dur
 ing Revolutionary times and for some
 years after. In 1900 he commanded the
 sloop Magdalene. Captain John $.
 Pruyn, who died in May, 1916, was an
 other representative of one of Albany $
 oldest families who followed the life of
 river skipper with credit to himself.
 Captain James Van Schoonhoven was
 another of the sturdy, honest oldskip-
 pers who sailed the waters of the Hud-
 son early in the nineteenth century
 Captain William Adams, another of
 Eye ancient mariners, died in this city,
 in March 1868, at the age of 90 years.
 He was a native of Massachusetts, and
 came to this city in his early manhood
 He had followed the waterp from his
 youth up, and was one of the most energetic and successful of the many
 prominent sloop captains on the North River, long before steam navigation was known. He was devoted Chris tan, and was one of the few who con- stituted the original membership of the First Baptist church in this city.
 Captain John Bogart, river skipper of some note, and very close friend of Captain Van Santvoord, died in May, 1853, at the age of 92 and was at his death the oldest mariner of the Hudson. He was in command of sloop during the Revolution and was the chosen and intimate friend of General Schuyler and of the leading men of this region. Cap tain Bogart was an elder in the North Dutch church for many years, and liv- ed the life of a consistent Christian Captain Peter Dox was master of a river sloop for some years before and after the Revolution Like many other cy cf |, he Jua a HcUnl1t | Christian and was a member of the con- sstory of the Dutch church. He died [ November 28, 1881, at Hopeton, Yates [ county. at the age of 20 years
 Captain George Monteath, native of . Dumblane, Scotland, came to Albany in 17S5 at the age of [ His voyage across the ocean gave him q taste for the life of mariner and while still quite young became master of a sloop He was a skipper for thirty years but when steam was introduced, unlike some of his fellows, he took advantage of it, instead of treating it with con- tempt and acquired fortune by it. He was one of the founders of ap rosperous towboat line. Captain Monteath died in this city in March, 1856, at the age of 7S. He was a good Christian and for years WdS lllleTesleu III lHt NOih ol llc Albany Marine Bible Society Captain Barnum Whipple was master of a soop on the Hudson before the age of steam, and died at Staten Island in April, 1857, aged IT His remains were inferred here. He was greatly interested in inn proving the navigation of the river and did much to secure the erection of light houses and beacon lights by the Ma tional Government He projected the ( system of dikes by which the waters of the river were concentrated. He was ; appointed inspector of customs by Pres ident Van Buren, was harbor master, and held other offices of trust and hon. or. l Tbe old Dutch shippers did not al- ways confine themselves to the Hudson river. They made voyages to points og the Atlantic coast and even to the ! West Indies. The sloop Olive Branch, I Captain Abraham Bloodgood made a | rip to the West Indies in 1775, with a l assorted cargo of Albany mer- consisting of flour, herrings, ! horses slaves, turkeys, geese peas, U ,nions lumber, apples, waste casks, Il md "one negro man, the property of 5 Mr. Staats, all of which he sold at An isua and St. I<itt's for about $3,000 and n exchange for which he brought back D ,ighty-one pounds of cotton, then rare Il lrtice here much rum and some cash. q Perhaps one of the most noted of the : i'd Albany shippers was Captain Stew rt Dean. He had been for several -ears master of vessel on the river, ut in 1915 undertook an enterprise that vas exceedingly bold for that rime In he year mentioned he fitted out tha lt- = le S0-ton sloop Experiment, for voy- ge to China. It was considered haz- rdous undertaking and few Albanians yer expected again to see eitner the essel or it's crew. She was laden with n assorted cargo for q regular trading k Xpedition. In spite of the gloomy pre- ii ictions of disaster the stanch little di raft completed successful voyage and T eturned to Albany without the loss of SC man in eighteen months with a re- of urn cargo of teas, silks and chinaWare. m Iany pieces of old china which were pl rought to Albany by Captain Dean are H till treasured as heirlooms in several df Id families Captain Dean made sev- co ral successful voyages to China subse st bo Ita1 ret ba