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New York to Albany by water, 1791 -- boat names and the Albany pier
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I'm editing a journal kept by a Vermont Quaker from Ferrisburg in the 1780s
and 1790s. He describes traveling from New York City Albany in 4th month
(April 1791) in verse beginning:

Aboard Peter Docks, I set off to come home,
At Albany Pier, the sloop had lay
And with a pleasant breeze we sailed away

The rest of the poem is about a conversation on religion with a fellow
passenger.

The journals couldn't spell and had terrible handwriting, so I try to check
any proper name.

(1) Can anyone identify the "Peter Docks" -- apparently a Hudson River
sloop.


(2) Where is the "Albany Pier" -- New York City?


Christopher Densmore
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