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Newspaper
Bristol Phenix
Location
Bristol, Rhode Island, United States of America
Date
Sep 06, 1851
Page
3
The Atlantic captained by West reached Canal Street dock at 5 30 AM after a record voyage from New York to Liverpool and back, carrying mails passengers and cargo. The report notes swift passages and a busy trade scene including India and Ireland news, with global updates from London to Vera Cruz and Havana.
Halifax reports the America arriving at five forty five am after departing Liverpool on the 23rd. The week’s cotton sales total 67 980 bales with prices firm and higher. Market notes poorer breadstuff with flour down and corn down while Indian corn rises. money remains in demand. Steven’s challenge to the Yacht Club for ten thousand guineas over the America has not been accepted. The America won the regatta on the 22d beating English yachts in a race with eighteen entrants.
Steamship Prometheus Capt. Churchill arrived this morning anchored off quarantine. 275 passengers traveled from California two weeks after leaving San Francisco. Passengers carried about 350000 in gold, freight 50000, with Thompson & Hitchcock handling freight. The Oregon reportedly carried nearly two million aboard and overtook the Prometheus near Acapulco. Also notes Bishop Hodding and Bishop Hamline in poor health, and local fire insurer concerns in Concord, NJ.
Marriages listed from a town report include George W. Diman to Emeline Miller, James B. Barrass to Hannah E. Winslow, Albert Chapman to Matilda Mulehahey, James Foley to Ann Caroline White, Chaves Banston to Lucy Gilbert, John Kelley to Sarah A. Jones, Joseph Brownell to Harriet A. Davis, William Chatterton to Marin Bates, Thomas E. French to Abby Ann Gardner, J C Bartlett to Mary A. Nudd, William Durfee to Phebe Ann Wardwell, and Robert Howard to Janete Black, with multiple locations cited such as Warren Newport Providence Tiverton and Waterville.
Notices record infant Alice Bradford from Cambridge aged 22 months 13 days and elder deaths including Doct Silas James aged 62 in Providence Levi Wheaton M D in the oid year aged 28 Sarah J Whitmarsh widow Nancy Tucker 68 Samuel Martin 72 Lydia Bassett 92 in Taunton Rochester area terms brief notices of death and ages with locations and dates.
Saturday and Sunday sailing notices list vessels including Steamer Bradford Durfee Borden from Fall River and Steamer Canonicus Child from Providence along with Sloops Midas Wardwell from New York and Fame Pearse from Fall River. Brigs and other craft such as Florence Fales from St Thomas depart, with multiple ships arriving and sailing between Providence New Haven and other ports.
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