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Setauket. 

 Wm. Bacon. 

 This builder constructed in all. forty vessels, ranging from looto 700 

 tons burden, but is unable to give the exact tonnage, and application for 

 further information proved resultless. 



At Riverhead John Davis built schooners Artist and Citizen, and 

 sloops Olive Branch, Copy, Wm. Penn, John Adams, Sophronia, Marsh, 

 and Signal. Frank Davis built schooner Mt^ry E. WoodhuU a.nd sloop 

 yacht Peerless. 



Cold Spring. 



More or less of shipbuilding and ship-owning has been carried on 

 upon the shores of this admirable harbor, one of the best on L. I. Sound, 

 from an early date; but persistent inquiry has failed to elicit any very definite 

 information respecting the vessels or their builders in early days. The bay 

 and harbor form a fine shelter for both large and small craft, being deep, spa- 

 cious and safe in all kinds of weather ; hence, naturally, the vicinity became 

 the home of many seafaring men and has so continued since the settlement of 

 the town. Beside the lists ofjrecenl builders some facts may be stated relating 

 to the earlier part of the present century. In 1836 the sloop Premier of 

 130 tons burden, Capt. Wood, traded from Cold Spring to South Carolina ; 

 the sloop Mediterranean, 100 tons, Capt. Jones, was in the Albany trade. 

 In 1846 the schooner Silas Wright, 130 tons, Capt. Conklin, traded with 

 the West Indies ; the schooner J. B. Gager, Capt. Fowler, traded in the 

 Gulf of Mexico. Since that date the following are some of the vessels 

 hailing from that port: Schr. Sarah Maria, 175 tons, Rogers, Central 

 America ; schr. Narcissa, 120 tons, Jones, Boston ; schr. John D. Jones, Ber- 

 dell, Virginia ; brig John H. Jones, 500 tons. Mills, Mobile ; brig Mary 

 E. Jones, Capt. E. M. Jones, Malaga ; schr. Eliza J. Raynor, Sally Mer- 

 ritt, Wm. L. Peck and others. Previous to the War of 181 2, Cold Spring 

 was largely engaged in the manufacture of flannels and broadcloths, and 

 also ground large quantities of grain for eastern markets, freighting the 

 grain from North Carolina and from the Hudson River. Cold Spring was 

 the second place on the Sound shore at which a steamboat connection 

 with New York was formed. 



Elwood Abkams. John Bennett. 



Rig. Name. Tons. Year. Rig. Na-^ie. Tons. Tear. 



Sloop E. A. Willis 35 1868 Schr. Sarah L. Merritt 67 1866 



Schr. Fortuna 37 1870 " Wm. L. Peck 78 1867 



Sloop Sarah F. looker 15 1872 Daniel Gillis. 



Schr. Hattie Chevalier 37 1873 Schr. Ann Dole 185 1868 



Stony Brook. 

 More or less of shipbuilding has been carried on at this place from an 

 early date. It occupies a favorable location on the east side of a good 

 harbor projecting southward from the eastern side of Smithtown Bay. A 

 portion of the village lies on the western side of the harbor, 

 in the town of Smithtown. One of the prominent builders, Mr. 

 David T. Bayles, who in recent years has practically retired from 

 the business, in sending me his list does not claim for it entire ac- 

 curacy as to tonnage by either the new or old custom house standard of 

 measurement, or by what is called the "carpenter's measurement"; his 



