[75] “Life on the Mississippi,” by Mark Twain, Chapter XX.
[76] Dunbar, “A History of Travel in America.”
[77] Warner’s “Immigrant’s Guide and Citizen’s Manual.”
[78] March 18, 1786, John Fitch was granted by New Jersey “the sole and exclusive right of constructing making using and employing or navigating, all and every species or kind of boats, impelled by the force of fire or steam” within the limits of that state. Delaware gave him similar rights in 1787 and New York, likewise, the same year. In 1798 Fitch’s grant in New York, which was to have run fourteen years, was canceled and Livingston given a monopoly for twenty years providing within a year he run a steamboat at four miles an hour. This he failed to do, but got his grant renewed in 1803, and again extended until the successful operation of the Clermont in 1807.
[79] “Messages and Papers,” Richardson, I, 584.
[80] Calhoun: “Works II,” 190. “American Nation” XIII, 253.
[81] “American Nation,” XIV, 231.
[82] “Laws of the United States,” VI., 120.
[83] MacDonald, “American Nation” Vol. XV, 134.
[84] “American Nation,” Vol. XV, pp. 136-137.