On a day in June, 1841, he boarded a steamboat at Ogdensburg on his way to Chicago.
It was ten o'clock that morning when they left the mill, some thirty miles from Ogdensburg.
It was seven oclock when they left Ogdensburg and at ten they were at Alexandria Bay.
They sent a few men down toward Ogdensburg to spy out the land.
Cannon were hauled out on the river from the little village of Prescott to cross the ice to Ogdensburg.
