This letter was signed by the president and the secretary of Congress.
[6] See _James Rogers and His Descendants_, by James Swift Rogers, Boston, 1902. There is also other evidence that it was Captain Moses Rogers, but the New York papers of the period do not give the first name of the captain in what they say about this first passage. Captain Rogers left the _Clermont_ on reaching Albany.
[7] To show what the packets carried, here is the invoice of the _Dreadnought's_ first cargo: 3827 barrels of flour, 24,150 bushels of wheat, 12,750 bushels of corn, 304 bales of cotton, 198 barrels of potash, 150 boxes of bacon, 5600 staves, 60 tons of ballast, a total dead weight of 1559.65 tons.
The ship was 200 feet long on deck, 40.25 feet wide, 26 feet deep. With this cargo on board she drew 21½ feet of water aft and 21 forward. Her main yard was 79 feet long.
Inconsistent hyphenation and spelling in the original document have been preserved.
Obvious typographical errors have been corrected.
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