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HISTORY OF ERIE COUNTY 171
June 1, and again in 1811, June 4, The east shore of Lake Michigan,
the St. Clair and Detroit Rivers are rid of ice much earlier than at other
places between March 20 and April 15. While at MackinaAv it is still
further delayed.
'' Lake Superior is the latest cleared of ice. The ice varies from tAvo
to four feet thick and in 1875 from 5 to 6 ft. thick.
'' In 1836 the total amount of tonnage on the lakes Avas 24,045.76 tons
consisting of 45 steamboats, tAvo ships, seven brig, one barge, 47 sloops,
144 schooners, and ten SCOAVS, total 256 vessels. Sandusky owned 4
steamboats, 9 schooners, and 6 sloops. Toledo 3 steamboats and 5 schooners.
No steamers or vessels were owned on Lake Michigan and those
owned on Lake Huron Avere mainly Canadian. In 1836 there were 18
steamers plying from Buffalo west, of Avhich 2 were from Sandusky, the
steamer Sandusky, Capt. T. J. Titus, of 377 tons, and the Str. United
States, Capt. Asa Hait, of 366 tons."
There Avere eight steamers lost that year with a loss of 900 lives.
EARLY VOTERS OP SANDUSKY
Here are the names of the men who voted in Portland Township at
the state election held at the mayor's office, Sandusky, October 10, 1837:
Peter June, Augustus Cook, Walter Wilbour, Rhoderick Willestine,
Zaeariah Brown, E. B. Sadler, John N. Beatey, Earl Bill, Daniel Dibble,
George S. Dorrell, Daniel VanFleet, IT. B. Radcliff, James B. Griffith,
WinsloAv Corbett, John G. Camp, William II. Caswell, R. J. Jennings,
J. W. Beatty, Isaac Wits, George Lawton, W. A. Simpson, James M.
Davidson, Robert Whitney, Ezra Wells, Hiram CoAvel, Oran Follett,
EdAvard Foreman, William N. Crain, J. P. Stephens, Carlton B. GraAV,
Orlando Ransom, David CasAA'ell, Austin Allen, Abel Holbrook, John
N. Sloane, James Foreman, James McDonald, George R. Morton, ROSAVCII
W. Mockabee, Daniel Phillips, Charles White", Isaac A. Mills, S. E.
Hubbard, Jonathan Richmond, S. R. Danforth, Charles F. Drake, Luther
McGee, J. W. Upp, Amos Earl, Solomon C. Moore, Daniel NeAvton,
William White, David Campbell, Foster M. Follett, William W. Curtis,
Samuel L. Pierce, Erastus Cook, Asa Pierce, Appelton H. Corbett,
William ToAvnsend, John H. Williams, William B. Smith, Hudson A.
Gaskil, Henry Raymond, Samuel M. Lockwood, F. W. Pomeroy, Leonard
Beatty, James White, John Dunks, Abner Root, James Anderson, A. II.
Barbour, Michael Gill, Charles Coles, William Silverthorn, Henry
Daskum, Benjamin Withington, TDavid Conner, Lora Wittiny, Samuel
Hammond, Moors FarAvell, George Bradley, Granville B. Beppeto, Jacob
Riley, John M. Boalt, John Kinney, Connell Tinney, 'George H. Wells,
Hezekiah Bickford, Francis Hull, William Benscoter, James B. Radcliff,
David White, Austin Parks, Edward Foreman, Charles A. Barnes,
Josiah W. Hollister, Thomas Neill, Samuel B. Caldwell, E. D. Bradley,
Parley H. Pierce, A. P. ToAA-ar, John Weeden, William Neill, Jeremy
Hopkins. Daniel Mallory, J. W. Ransom, Asborn Calkins, John Martin,
O. F. Wood, I. S. Cochran, Robert Hathaway, L. G. Harkness, David