1828: The U.S. mail packet schooner Stranger was advertising to carry freight and passengers from Charleston to Indian Key and Key West on March 1. “If sufficient inducement is offered,
1818: The brig Sally, sailing from Rhode Island to Havana via Savannah, was wrecked on the Florida Reef. The crew and cargo were saved and carried to Nassau, but the
1822: Excerpt from the Logbook of the U.S. Schooner Shark LCDR M.C. Perry commanding: Having completed our repairs, replenished our Sea Stores, obtained a fresh supply of Officers and Men,
1857: William Hackley recorded in his diary: Rose at 6 and walked as yesterday, returned home and bathed. At 8:45 a.m. barometer 29.41.5, clouds 3. Last night about 11 there