'Western Trader' of 400 tons."[1] By 1800, therefore, cargoes of flour, iron, beef, pork, glass-ware, furniture of black walnut, wild cherry, and yellow birch, and beverages of varying character were awaiting the great hulls of these new ships of several hundred tons. In 1803 Thaddeus Harris found several of these ships on the stocks at Pittsburg; three had been launched before April, "from 160 to 275 tons burden."[2] On May 4 he wrote at Marietta: "the schooner 'Dorcas and Sally,' of 70 tons, built at Wheeling and rigged at Marietta, dropped down the river. The following day there there paſſed down the ſchooner 'Amity,' of 103 tons, from Pittsburg, and the ship 'Pittſburg,' of 275 tons burden, from the ſame place, laden with ſeventeen hundred barrels of flour, with the rest of her cargo in flat-bottomed boats. In the evening the brig 'Mary Avery,' of 130 tons, built at Marietta, ſet ſail. These afforded an interesting ſpectacle to the inhabitants of this place, who ſaluted the
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