Ship Wreck in Lake Ontario: Ship name is BAY STATE. Was out of Oswego New York and headed for Ohio.

 Lake Ontario Steamship BAY STATE wreckage discovered by Treasure Hunters

 

Found at: http://www.newsmax.com/TheWire/bay-state-shipwreck-lake-ontario-discovered/2015/10/21/id/697282/

 

Lake Erie Ship Wrecks From Long Ago

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Lake Erie Ship Wrecks

In seeking out one of my ancestors origins there was a ship wreck in Lake Erie spoke of. 

Finding out such information based in fact has been very difficult.  

There are several Lake Erie shipwreck web sites to use:  

http://greatlakeshistory.homestead.com/

http://www.alcheminc.com/shipwrck.html

http://www.shipwreckworld.com

http://www.ohioshipwrecks.org/Shipwrecks.php

http://www.lakeerieimprovement.org/shipwrecks/

http://seagrant.psu.edu/education/stear/SHIPWRECKS%20Lost.pdf

Great Lakes Shipwrecks

greatlakeshistory.homestead.com/files/m.htm

http://www.northernmaritimeresearch.com/famous-gls.html

Enjoy the information & Good Luck!
You have to check them out and see if you can gain information for yourself.

"Good Intent" Sunk in Lake Erie 1806?

Lake Erie Ship Wrecks, Ship Wrecks around the world.  Disclaimer:  I may make some of you Angry, please read all the way through and respect me for my opinion & family lore.  Because of the family lore I cannot accept that All Captains did or why would they go down with their ship?

Lose of a Loved one is never happy. I am most sincerely sorry for those affected by such tragic happenings.

I know we all hear of the stories of a ship wreck/sinking and the Captain going down with the Ship!

I say No Way!!! Not all of these Captains went down with their Vessel.

How can I say this???

In my Family History there is the Family Lore that such a thing occurred.  That I have a Male Ancestor that was Captain of a Lake Erie vessel.  That it sank.  He however did not go down with his ship.  Instead he and the crew went in the Life Boat.  They made their way to foreign shore.  

My ancestor never returned to his parents family.  The family always believed him dead. That he was sunk with his vessel.  I know nothing of his crew.  Was he really a crew member and not the Captain.  Since being a captain makes for better Family Lore.


 My ancestor made a new life for himself. 

 He married had children.  Died in his new adopted home.

So when men come out of nowhere in your family history.  You might want to start looking for Ship Wrecks and if they were crew or Captain of a ship.

New way to search out a Male Ancestor.  I say Good Luck on finding such info though. Cause not only can I not find crew list I can barely find out anything on the ship wreck.  Its widely reported where it went down but who was on these vessels???

There are legal obligations to the Captain.  So if he is reported lost with his crew that eliminates his  Legal Obligation. 

 Hence in my family lore, it states that his father who was alive at the time was security for the Lake going ship.  I have been searching out  newspapers stating that a man was ruined since he was security to the Sinking Ship.  Nothing yet 

Am I just banging my head for nothing I will not know till I turn over every stone.

From Wikipedia en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Captain_goes_down_with_the_ship about *Ship Captain going down with his Vessel:

History

The concept is closely related to another protocol from the nineteenth century, "women and children first." Both reflect the Victorian ideal of chivalry in which the upper classes were expected to emulate a morality tied to sacred honor, service, and respect for the disadvantaged. The actions of the captain and men during the sinking of HMS Birkenhead in 1852 prompted praise from many due to the sacrifice of the men who saved the women and children by evacuating them first. Rudyard Kipling's poem "Soldier an' Sailor Too" and Samuel Smiles' Self-Help both highlighted the valour of the men who stood at attention and played in the band as their ship was sinking.

In practice

The idiom literally means that a captain will be the last person to leave a ship alive prior to its sinking or utter destruction, and if unable to evacuate his crew and passengers, the captain will not evacuate himself. It is therefore related to the idiom, "the last one off is a rotten egg," which is the opposite sentiment. In maritime law the responsibility of the ship's master for his ship is paramount no matter what its condition, so abandoning a ship has legal consequences, including the nature of salvage rights. So even if a captain abandons his ship in distress, he is generally responsible for it in his absence and would be compelled to return to the ship when danger to the vessel has relented. If a naval captain evacuates a vessel in wartime, it may be considered a capital offense like desertion, mutiny, or sedition unless he subsequently destroys the ship or permits it to sink.
  

Lake Erie Ship Wrecks

  Seeking out my ancestors ship wreck in Lake Erie is not easy at all.  Not only are ship wrecks shrouded in mystery but so are Maritime records.  Where does one even begin to know where to search?

 

I have been trying discover all possible leads on The ship "Good Intent".  I find more then one vessel with the same name:

Here are some things I have discovered:

Newspaper clipping web site Maritime History Of The Great Lakes., 

 NAVIGATION OF LAKE ERIE.---The GOOD INTENT, of 35 tons, was built by Capt. Lee in 1799 and navigated the lake till 1806, when she ran on Point Abino and was lost, together with her cargo and crew.
      Monroe Evening News
      February 1, 1834


The Schooner GOOD INTENT of 35 tons, was built in 1810, and lost on Point Appineau in 1816.
      Report on Buffalo Harbor
      Commercial Advertiser & Journal, Buffalo
      Wednesday, June 9, 1841 pp 2 col. 3, 4 & 5

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See my dilema

Then in books/Web addresses I have found by searching the Internet:

 ------------------------------------------------------ 1187
GOOD INTENT
Other names : none
Official no. : none
Type at loss : schooner, wood
Build info : 180?, Mill Creek, Lake Erie
Specs : (30 t.)
Date of loss : 1825
Place of loss : 2 mi NE of Dunkirk, NY
Lake : Erie
Type of loss : (storm)
Loss of life : ?
Carrying : ?
Detail : Wrecked, no detail available.
Another vessel named GOOD INTENT (maybe same vessel) was reported lost in 1805 or 6 on Point Abino with loss of all hands. She was built by Capt. Wm Lee in 1799 or 1800.
Sources: sol,h,hgl,mpl

Nothing conclusive.  Do you think they could ever say who the Captain was for the trip when it Sunk???

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Erie County, Pennsylvania

History of Erie County, Pennsylvania 1884

by Samuel P. Bates, 

Submitted by Gaylene Kerr Banister

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Chapter XVI - Lake Navigation

The first vessel to sail the waters of Lake Erie was built by Robert Cavalier de la Salle, an adventurous Frenchman, on the Niagara River, six miles above the Falls, in the year 1677. She was named the Griffin, and was of sixty tons burthen. La Salle navigated Lakes Erie, Huron and Michigan, to Green Bay, in the present State of Wisconsin, where, with a picked number of men, he left the vessel and marched overland to the Mississippi. The remainder of the crew attempted to return to the Niagara, and are supposed to have been lost in a storm, as neither vessel nor men were heard from afterward. Nearly a hundred years later the French built another sailing vessel with which they undertook to navigate the lake. This second venture was as unsuccessful as the first, the vessel having foundered and forty-nine of her crew having been drowned. No record is to be found of any other sailing vessel on the lake until 1766, when the British, who had secured possession of both shores, built and launched four. They were of light burthen, and were chiefly used for carrying troops and army supplies. All transportation of a commercial character, and all of the very limited passenger business was carried on by batteaux until after the close of the Revolutionary war. They kept close to the shore, were mainly propelled by paddles or oars, and if a sail was used it was simply a blanket fastened to a pole, to take advantage of favorable winds. The earliest American sailing vessel on the lake was a small boat, owned and run by Capt. William Lee, in which he carried passengers and light articles of freight between Buffalo and Erie. She was constructed to use oars in going against the wind, and had no crew, the passengers being obliged to work for their passage. The first sailing vessel built on the south shore of Lake Erie was the sloop Washington, of thirty tons, under the superintendence of Eliphalet Beebe, at the mouth of Four Mile Creek, for the Pennsylvania Population Company, owners of the bulk of the land in the Triangle. She was launched in September, 1798, was employed for some twelve years in the service of the company, and was removed on rollers across the Niagara Peninsula, to Lake Ontario in 1810, where she was lost. The first vessel launched at Erie was built at the mouth of Mill Creek, in 1799, Capt. Lee and Rufus S. Reed being her principal owners. She was named the Good Intent and sunk at Point Albino in 1806, with all on board. The Harlequin, built at Erie in 1800, by Mr. Beebe, was also lost the first season, with her entire crew. About 1801, the Wilkinson, of sixty-five tons, was owned at Erie. She was commanded by Capt. Daniel Dobbins, in 1805. Another early Erie vessel was the schooner Mary, of 100 tons, built by Thomas Wilson, 1805.

Now to just find out where the ship was built??? 

 

Lake Erie Shipwrecks What can you add?

Even before the Lake Erie region of Michigan, New York Ohio Pennsylvania, had cities on their coastlines.  Well did you know there was a well established Shipping route on Lake Erie?



  Do you have an Ancestor who was involved with Lake Erie shipping in the early 1800's  say before 1812?

Picture above  from  greatlakesboating.com

The Mohawk (Iroquois) Trail

©1995 by Beverly Whitaker, Genealogy Tutor

Route of the Mohawk Trail

Albany, NY
Schenectady, NY
Utica, NY
Oneida, NY
Syracuse, NY
Auburn, NY
Batavia, NY
Buffalo, NY (on Lake Erie)

Ohio  

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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Ohio ⁱ/oʊˈhaɪ.oʊ/ is a state in the Midwestern United States. Ohio is the 34th largest (by area), the 7th most populous, and the10th most densely populated of the 50 United States. The state's capital and largest city is Columbus.

The name "Ohio" originated from Iroquois word ohi-yo’, meaning "great river" or "large creek".^{[17][18][19][20]} The state, originally partitioned from the Northwest Territory, was admitted to the Union as the 17th state (and the first under the Northwest Ordinance) on March 1, 1803.^[9][21] Although there are conflicting narratives regarding the origin of the nickname, Ohio is historically known as the "Buckeye State" (relating to the Ohio buckeye tree) and Ohioans are also known as "Buckeyes".^[2]

The government of Ohio is composed of the executive branch, led by the Governor; the legislative branch, which comprises theOhio General Assembly; and the judicial branch, which is led by the Supreme Court. Currently, Ohio occupies 16 seats in theUnited States House of Representatives.^[22] Ohio is known for its status as both a swing state^[23] and a bellwether^[23] in national elections.

History

Main article: History of Ohio

Native Americans

Archeological evidence suggests that the Ohio Valley was inhabited by nomadic people as early as 13,000 BC.^[46] These early nomads disappeared from Ohio by 1,000 BC, "but their material culture provided a base for those who followed them".^[46] Between 1,000 and 800 BC, the sedentary Adena culture emerged. As Ohio historian George W. Knepper notes, this sophisticated culture was "so named because evidences of their culture were excavated in 1902 on the grounds of Adena, Thomas Worthington's estate located nearChillicothe".^[47] The Adena were able to establish "semi-permanent" villages because they domesticated plants, which included squash, sunflowers, and perhaps corn. Cultivation of these in addition to hunting and gathering supported more settled, complex villages.^[47] The most spectacular remnant of the Adena culture is the Great Serpent Mound, located inAdams County, Ohio.^[47]

Iroquois conquests during the Beaver Wars (mid-1600s), which largely depopulated the upper and mid-Ohio Rivervalley.^[48]

Around 100 BC, the Adena were joined in Ohio Country by the Hopewell people, who were named for the farm owned by Captain M. C. Hopewell, where evidence of their unique culture was discovered.^[49] Like the Adena, the Hopewell people participated in a mound-building culture. Their complex, large and technologically sophisticated earthworks can be found in modern-day Marietta, Newark, andCircleville.^[49] The Hopewell, however, disappeared from the Ohio Valley in about 600 AD. Little is known about the people who replaced them.^[50] Researchers have identified two additional, distinct prehistoric cultures: the Fort Ancient people and the Whittlesey Focus people.^[50] Both cultures apparently disappeared in the 17th century, perhaps decimated by infectious diseases spread in epidemics from early European contact. The Native Americans had no immunity to common European diseases. Some scholars believe that the Fort Ancient people "were ancestors of the historic Shawnee people, or that, at the very least, the historic Shawnees absorbed remnants of these older peoples."^[50]

American Indians in the Ohio Valley were greatly affected by the aggressive tactics of the Iroquois Confederation, based in central and western New York.^[51] After the so-called Beaver Wars in the mid-17th century, the Iroquois claimed much of the Ohio country as hunting and, more importantly, beaver-trapping ground. After the devastation of epidemics and war in the mid-17th century, which largely emptied the Ohio country of indigenous people by the mid-to-late 17th century, the land gradually became repopulated by the mostly Algonquian-speaking descendants of its ancient inhabitants, that is, descendants of the Adena, Hopewell, and Mississippian cultures. Many of these Ohio-country nations were multi-ethnic (sometimes multi-linguistic) societies born out of the earlier devastation brought about by disease, war, and subsequent social instability. They subsisted on agriculture (corn, sunflowers, beans, etc.) supplemented by seasonal hunts. By the 18th century, they were part of a larger global economy brought about by European entry into the fur trade.^[52]

The indigenous nations to inhabit Ohio in the historical period included the Miamis (a large confederation); Wyandots (made up of refugees, especially from the fractured Huronconfederacy); Delawares (pushed west from their historic homeland in New Jersey); Shawnees (also pushed west, although they may have been descended from the Fort Ancient people of Ohio); Ottawas (more commonly associated with the upper Great Lakes region); Mingos (like the Wyandot, a group recently formed of refugees from Iroquois); and Eries(gradually absorbed into the new, multi-ethnic "republics," namely the Wyandot).^[53] Ohio country was also the site of Indian massacres, such as the Yellow Creek Massacre,Gnadenhutten and Pontiac's Rebellion school massacre.^[54]

Colonial and Revolutionary eras

During the 18th century, the French set up a system of trading posts to control the fur trade in the region. In 1754, France and Great Britain fought a war that was known in North America as the French and Indian War and in Europe as the Seven Years War. As a result of the Treaty of Paris, the French ceded control of Ohio and the remainder of the Old Northwest to Great Britain.

Pontiac's Rebellion in the 1760s, however, posed a challenge to British military control.^[55] This came to an end with the colonists' victory in the American Revolution. In the Treaty of Paris in 1783, Britain ceded all claims to Ohio country to the United States.

Northwest Territory: 1787–1803

Plaque commemorating the Northwest Ordinance outside Federal Hall in lowerManhattan

The United States created the Northwest Territory under the Northwest Ordinance of 1787.^[56] Slavery was not permitted in the new territory. Settlement began with the founding of Marietta by the Ohio Company of Associates, which had been formed by a group of American Revolutionary War veterans. Following the Ohio Company, the Miami Company (also referred to as the "Symmes Purchase") claimed the southwestern section, and the Connecticut Land Company surveyed and settled the Connecticut Western Reserve in present-day Northeast Ohio.

The old Northwest Territory originally included areas previously known as Ohio Country and Illinois Country. As Ohio prepared for statehood, the Indiana Territory was created, reducing the Northwest Territory to approximately the size of present-day Ohio plus the eastern half of the Lower Peninsula of Michigan and the eastern tip of the Upper Peninsula.

Under the Northwest Ordinance, areas of the territory could be defined and admitted as states once their population reached 60,000. Although Ohio's population numbered only 45,000 in December 1801, Congress determined that the population was growing rapidly and Ohio could begin the path to statehood. The assumption was that it would exceed 60,000 residents by the time it was admitted as a state. Furthermore, in regards to the Leni Lenape Native Americans living in the region, Congress decided that 10,000 acres on theMuskingum River in the present state of Ohio would "be set apart and the property thereof be vested in the Moravian Brethren . . . or a society of the said Brethren for civilizing the Indians and promoting Christianity."^[57]

Adena culture  From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

    

The Adena culture was a Pre-Columbian Native American culture that existed from 1000 to 200 BC, in a time known as the Early Woodland period. The Adena culture refers to what were probably a number of related Native American societies sharing a burial complex and ceremonial system. The Adena lived in a variety of locations, including: Ohio, Indiana, West Virginia, Kentucky, and parts of Pennsylvania and New York.

Importance[edit]

Adena sites are concentrated in a relatively small area - maybe 200 sites in the central Ohio Valley, with perhaps another 200 scattered throughout Indiana, Kentucky, West Virginia and Pennsylvania, although they may once have numbered in the thousands. The importance of the Adena complex comes from its considerable influence on other contemporary and succeeding cultures.^[1] The Adena culture is seen as the precursor to the traditions of the Hopewell culture, which are sometimes thought as an elaboration, or zenith, of Adena traditions.

The Adena were notable for their agricultural practices, pottery, artistic works and extensive trading network, which supplied them with a variety of raw materials, ranging from copper from the Great Lakes to shells from the Gulf Coast.^[2][3][4] The Adena culture was named for the large mound on Thomas Worthington's early 19th-century estate called "Adena", in Chillicothe, Ohio.^[5]

Art and religion[edit]

Mounds[edit]

Lasting traces of Adena culture are still seen in their substantial earthworks. Once Adena mounds numbered in the hundreds, but only a number of Adena earthen monuments still survive today. These mounds generally ranged in size from 20 feet (6.1 m) to 300 feet (91 m) in diameter and served as burial structures, ceremonial sites, historical markers and possibly gathering places. These mounds were built using hundreds of thousands of baskets full of specially selected and graded earth. According to archaeological investigations, Adena mounds were usually built as part of burial ritual, in which the earth of the mound was piled immediately atop a burned mortuary building. These mortuary buildings were intended to keep and maintain the dead until their final burial was performed. Before the construction of the mounds, some utilitarian and grave goods would be placed on the floor of the structure, which was burned with the goods and honored dead within. The mound would then be constructed, and often a new mortuary structure would be placed atop the new mound. After a series of repetitions, mound/mortuary/mound/mortuary, a quite prominent earthwork would remain. In the later Adena period, circular ridges of unknown function were sometimes constructed around the burial mounds.^[1] Adena mounds stood in isolation from domestic living areas.^[6]

Prominent mounds[edit]

Main article: List of Adena culture sites

Site	Image	Description
Adena Mound		Adena Mound, the type site for the culture, a registered historic structure near Chillicothe, Ohio
Biggs Site		The site, located in Greenup County, Kentucky, is a conical abide surrounded by a series of circular ditches and embankments. It is connected to the Portsmouth Earthworks directly across the Ohio River in Portsmouth, Ohio.[7][8]
Criel Mound		A 35-foot (11 m) high and 175-foot (53 m)-diameter conical  mound, is the second largest of its type in West Virginia.  It is located in South Charleston, West Virginia.  P. W. Norris of the Smithsonian Institution oversaw the excavation. His team discovered numerous skeletons  along with weapons and jewelry.[9]
Enon Mound		Ohio's second largest conical burial mound, it is believed to have been built by the Adena.
Grave Creek Mound		At 69 feet (21 m) high and 295 feet (90 m) in diameter, is the  largest conical-type burial mound in the United States.  It is located in Moundsville, West Virginia. In 1838, much  of the archaeological evidence in this mound was destroyed when several non-archaeologists tunneled into the mound.[9][10]
Miamisburg Mound		Once serving as an ancient burial site, the Mound is the most  recognizable landmark in Miamisburg. It is the largest conical  burial mound in Ohio, and remains virtually intact. Located in  a city park at 900 Mound Avenue, it is an Ohio historical site and serves as a popular attraction and picnic destination for  area families. Visitors can climb to the top of the mound, via stone-masonry steps.
Wolf Plains Group		A Late Adena group of 30 earthworks including 22 conical mounds and nine circular enclosures.[11] located a few miles to the northwest of Athens, Ohio,

Shamanism[edit]

Although the mounds are beautiful artistic achievements themselves, Adena artists created smaller, more personal pieces of art. Art motifs that became important to many later Native Americans began with the Adena.^[6] Motifs such as the weeping eye and cross and circle design became mainstays in many succeeding cultures. Many pieces of art seemed to revolve around shamanic practices, and the transformation of humans into animals—particularly birds, wolves, bears and deer—and back to human form. This may indicate a belief that the practice imparted the animals' qualities to the wearer or holder of the objects. Deer antlers, both real and constructed of copper, wolf, deer and mountain lion jawbones, and many other objects were fashioned into costumes, necklaces and other forms of regalia by the Adena.^[12] Distinctive tubular smoking pipes, with either flattened or blocked-end mouthpieces, suggest the offering of smoke to the spirits. The objective of pipe smoking may have been altered states of consciousness, achieved through the use of the hallucinogenic plant Nicotiana rustica. All told, Adena was a manifestation of a broad regional increase in the number and kind of artifacts devoted to spiritual needs.^[6]

Stone tablets[edit]

The Adena also carved small stone tablets, usually 4 or 5 inches by 3 or 4 inches by .5 inches thick. On one or both flat sides were gracefully composed stylized zoomorphs or curvilinear geometric designs in deep relief. Paint has been found on some Adena tablets, leading archaeologists to propose that these stone tablets were probably used to stamp designs on cloth or animal hides, or onto their own bodies.^[12] Its possible they were used to outline designs for tattooing.^[6]