Newspapers published in 1791 might provide clues. You can see what's available to you through interlibrary loan by looking at the microfilmed newspapers collection available at www.nysl.nysed.gov/nysnp, the home page of the New York State Newspaper Project. >>> [log in to unmask] 04/25/00 12:01PM >>> 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 [log in to unmask]