Young Chittenden was a casualty of one of the largest gale storms on Lake Erie. History records the event as "Cyclone" 1835 which occurred November 11, 1835.
Milo Jones Papers includes a family letter written to account for the loss of "young Chittenden" that matches exactly the description of the steam schooner "Comet" as described by www.maritimehistoryofthegreatlakes.com. It's description of the event is as follows, " The schooner Comet, of Buffalo, left Madison dock, below Fairport, with fifteen tons of iron and five tons of ashes. The crew consisted of six sailors, and there was one passenger. She is supposed to have foundered off Dunkirk as two topmasts were afterward seen in that locality, and several articles, recognized as belonging to them, floated ashore."
The family letter dated December 6,1835, between Edward Jones of Richmond, Chittenden County, Vermont and his son, Milo Jones, addressed to Milwaukee Northwest Territory, is copyright and therefore cannot be used without permission of the Wisconsin State University. Young Chittenden was waiting for Milo Jones on the Ohio side of Lake Erie when he switched vessels; he was the sole passenger aboard the Comet. The Buffalo paper gave complete account and may verify young Chittenden as passenger.
Truman Chittenden, his father, was the son of Judge Truman Chittenden, and grandson to the first Governor of Vermont. His mother was Lucy Jones, twin of Edward Jones, of Richmond, Vermont. Young was to meet his first cousin, Milo Jones, in the Northwest Territory, the later was a government surveyor.
No direct living descendant of Young Chittenden exists to honor his life, his sacrifice to migrate west, and his loss felt by family members. The writer is an indirect descendant that researches colonial New England milling families and Vermont Boys gone west.
Milo Jones Papers includes a family letter written to account for the loss of "young Chittenden" that matches exactly the description of the steam schooner "Comet" as described by www.maritimehistoryofthegreatlakes.com. It's description of the event is as follows, " The schooner Comet, of Buffalo, left Madison dock, below Fairport, with fifteen tons of iron and five tons of ashes. The crew consisted of six sailors, and there was one passenger. She is supposed to have foundered off Dunkirk as two topmasts were afterward seen in that locality, and several articles, recognized as belonging to them, floated ashore."
The family letter dated December 6,1835, between Edward Jones of Richmond, Chittenden County, Vermont and his son, Milo Jones, addressed to Milwaukee Northwest Territory, is copyright and therefore cannot be used without permission of the Wisconsin State University. Young Chittenden was waiting for Milo Jones on the Ohio side of Lake Erie when he switched vessels; he was the sole passenger aboard the Comet. The Buffalo paper gave complete account and may verify young Chittenden as passenger.
Truman Chittenden, his father, was the son of Judge Truman Chittenden, and grandson to the first Governor of Vermont. His mother was Lucy Jones, twin of Edward Jones, of Richmond, Vermont. Young was to meet his first cousin, Milo Jones, in the Northwest Territory, the later was a government surveyor.
No direct living descendant of Young Chittenden exists to honor his life, his sacrifice to migrate west, and his loss felt by family members. The writer is an indirect descendant that researches colonial New England milling families and Vermont Boys gone west.
Young Chittenden was a casualty of one of the largest gale storms on Lake Erie. History records the event as "Cyclone" 1835 which occurred November 11, 1835.
Milo Jones Papers includes a family letter written to account for the loss of "young Chittenden" that matches exactly the description of the steam schooner "Comet" as described by www.maritimehistoryofthegreatlakes.com. It's description of the event is as follows, " The schooner Comet, of Buffalo, left Madison dock, below Fairport, with fifteen tons of iron and five tons of ashes. The crew consisted of six sailors, and there was one passenger. She is supposed to have foundered off Dunkirk as two topmasts were afterward seen in that locality, and several articles, recognized as belonging to them, floated ashore."
The family letter dated December 6,1835, between Edward Jones of Richmond, Chittenden County, Vermont and his son, Milo Jones, addressed to Milwaukee Northwest Territory, is copyright and therefore cannot be used without permission of the Wisconsin State University. Young Chittenden was waiting for Milo Jones on the Ohio side of Lake Erie when he switched vessels; he was the sole passenger aboard the Comet. The Buffalo paper gave complete account and may verify young Chittenden as passenger.
Truman Chittenden, his father, was the son of Judge Truman Chittenden, and grandson to the first Governor of Vermont. His mother was Lucy Jones, twin of Edward Jones, of Richmond, Vermont. Young was to meet his first cousin, Milo Jones, in the Northwest Territory, the later was a government surveyor.
No direct living descendant of Young Chittenden exists to honor his life, his sacrifice to migrate west, and his loss felt by family members. The writer is an indirect descendant that researches colonial New England milling families and Vermont Boys gone west.
Milo Jones Papers includes a family letter written to account for the loss of "young Chittenden" that matches exactly the description of the steam schooner "Comet" as described by www.maritimehistoryofthegreatlakes.com. It's description of the event is as follows, " The schooner Comet, of Buffalo, left Madison dock, below Fairport, with fifteen tons of iron and five tons of ashes. The crew consisted of six sailors, and there was one passenger. She is supposed to have foundered off Dunkirk as two topmasts were afterward seen in that locality, and several articles, recognized as belonging to them, floated ashore."
The family letter dated December 6,1835, between Edward Jones of Richmond, Chittenden County, Vermont and his son, Milo Jones, addressed to Milwaukee Northwest Territory, is copyright and therefore cannot be used without permission of the Wisconsin State University. Young Chittenden was waiting for Milo Jones on the Ohio side of Lake Erie when he switched vessels; he was the sole passenger aboard the Comet. The Buffalo paper gave complete account and may verify young Chittenden as passenger.
Truman Chittenden, his father, was the son of Judge Truman Chittenden, and grandson to the first Governor of Vermont. His mother was Lucy Jones, twin of Edward Jones, of Richmond, Vermont. Young was to meet his first cousin, Milo Jones, in the Northwest Territory, the later was a government surveyor.
No direct living descendant of Young Chittenden exists to honor his life, his sacrifice to migrate west, and his loss felt by family members. The writer is an indirect descendant that researches colonial New England milling families and Vermont Boys gone west.
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