1822: Excerpt from the Logbook of the U.S. Schooner Shark LCDR M.C. Perry commanding: Remarks, Thursday, July 25th At 2, having received from the Macedonian what Provisions and Stores she
1856: William Hackley recorded in his diary: Rose at 4 and walked on the beach, returned home and bathed. At 8 a.m. barometer 29.62, thermometer 86, wind east northeast 3, clouds 4. Major William Fraserâs symptoms are favorable The family of Murphy, father, mother and four children, are very sick and it is thought some will die. Wrote to Mother. Went up to see Dr. Pettingill and he filled my front teeth with an amalgam and pulled out a jaw tooth which was too far gone to fill. It is one which has been ulcerated for about two years. The steamer Isabel got in about 4 p.m. and carried away her fore topmast in trying to get alongside her wharf. Captain and Mrs. Cornelius Curtis, Wallberg, Josephine Ximinez and Franklin Phillips went in her.