Schooner exact seattle

Maybe 18 months ago? These things are usually kept pretty quiet. A couple of temporary closings, facelifts, and re-openings. Partnerships with local restauranteurs. It all seemed rather desperate for a company that had expanded its brewing capacity way beyond all financial reason, presumably following some really, really bad advice. At some point, as the brewery, taproom, and restaurant struggled to stay afloat, San Juan Seltzer became more than a contract-brewing customer.

San Juan Seltzer became a major stakeholder in the company. Back then, when I learned about this latest development from a reliable source, it seemed clear to me that the end was near for the brewery that was started in by Heather and Matt McClung in an Active Space unit in West Seattle.

Perhaps this is only because there is already a brewery named San Juan Brewing Company the one that makes beer in Friday Harbor. I am not suggesting that Schooner Brewing is completely done, or that its beers will no longer be available. Truth is, they are already dead to me. Not because of my personal relationship with the McClungs though I would not apologize for that and not because of any other personal, spiteful reason. Rather, the brewery formerly known as Schooner Exact Brewing is dead to me because it no longer exists on Google.

Hell, the websites are dead and the domain names are abandoned. I wish them luck. The prospectors remained until March, when they returned to Puget Sound, bringing a few specimens obtained from the natives.

The Exact refitted and returned in March. Three other vessels, the Tepic , Glencoe , and Vancouver , advertised to take passengers to the island, but nothing like success followed the expeditions.

The article says that the island is claimed by the Hudson's Bay Company and that Captain Folger represents that gold is lying among the hills there reaching down to the shore.

The article says that the schooner Exact visited nearly every one of the harbors without accident and that the Exact was about to return to the island with gold seekers. The same article was published again in the Daily Alta California newspaper, on June 15, , on page Despite the gold fever excitement, from the prospect of gold on the Queen Charlotte Islands in the early s, no news was found in the newspapers about the schooner Exact bringing back any gold.

Later some gold mining was continued by others, intermittently through the s, in the vicinity of the point of land that had been named Una Point by Georgianna Point is named after the sloop Georgianna , Exact Point is named after the schooner Exact , and Demariscove [ sic ] Point is named after the schooner Damariscove. All three of those vessels were sailed to the Queen Charlotte Islands on separate gold expeditions in The three geographic names were submitted by the Canadian Hydrographic Service to the British Columbia Geographical Names Office and were adopted in All three geographic names appear on the Skidegate Channel nautical chart , for the Queen Charlotte Islands, published by the Canadian Hydrographic Service.

The sailing orders to the H. Thetis , given from Callao, Peru on April 8, , by Fairfax Moresby, Rear Admiral and Commander in Chief of the Pacific Station, included orders to take measures to ensure British sovereignty over the Queen Charlotte Islands, to warn any adventurers that may be located or speculating there that they are there only on sufferance, and to endeavor to obtain specimens of the precious metals located there. The H. Thetis , under the command of Captain Augustus Leopold Kuper, was a three-masted gun British frigate that was launched in When the H.

Thetis arrived in San Francisco, 8 days from Vancouver Island, it had men on board. The oysters may possibly have been brought back to San Francisco on another return trip from the Queen Charlotte Islands.

Cranberries were apparently also brought back to San Francisco on that same trip. As land filling was done during the gold rush out into Yerba Buena Cove of San Francisco Harbor, for additional level building area on the San Francisco waterfront, Long Wharf was extended and the location of the original part of Long Wharf became Wharf Street and was later renamed Commercial Street.

Within a year after the November 13, , landing of the founding pioneers from the schooner Exact the pioneer settlement of Seattle, Oregon Territory began to flourish at a small peninsula, beside a marshy lagoon, which the United States Exploring Expedition U. The place name Seattle was established by the summer of and first appeared in newspapers in September Denny, Seattle.

In the eighth issue of The Columbian vol. The advertisement indicates that the schooner Exact had a tonnage of tons register and was particularly adapted for the coasting trade. At that time, in America, the calculated cubic feet of cargo room of a vessel was divided by 95 to determine the vessel's tonnage, which explains the denominator of the remainder fractional tonnage recorded on the certificate of registry and at Olympia.

Information about how tonnage admeasurement was determined back then is documented in the United States Statutes at Large, Act of March 2, , Chapter 22, Section Captain Isaiah Folger and Francis B.

Folger were relatives from Nantucket, both being descendants of Nathan Folger of Nantucket. It's interesting to note that the crew of the schooner Exact set sail from Nantucket for San Francisco precisely one month after this business partnership was formed, although no business connection between Captain Isaiah Folger and his relative Francis B.

Folger has yet been determined. In the tenth issue of The Columbian vol. In that list of distances early settlements were listed from Portland to Olympia by way of the Cowlitz Trail from Cowlitz Landing, where passengers, freight and mail were forwarded by batteaux and canoes on the Cowlitz River to and from the Columbia River at Monticello. Also in that list of distances early settlements were listed from Olympia to Cape Flattery by way of Puget Sound and surrounding waters.

It's amusing to see New York to Seattle having been listed in as five miles, but in that instance the distance was from the Alki landing site New York to Seattle. A couple weeks later, on January 6, , the Legislative Assembly of the Territory of Oregon passed another act that located the county seat of King County at Seattle, on the donation land claim of David S.

Low, and Luther M. The Legislative Assembly of the Territory of Oregon also created Island County on January 6, , with the county seat established at Coveland on the acre donation land claim of Richard Hyatt Lansdale. Howe and John Crockett. The two-story wood frame building that served as the Island County Courthouse still exists, as a private residence, along Madrona Way at the head of Penn Cove and it marks the location of the early pioneer settlement of Coveland that was the original county seat of Island County.

The building was constructed in as a general store and it also housed the first county offices, courthouse and post office. Also, about three miles to the southeast, the circa Alexander Blockhouse still exists in Coupeville on what was the acre donation land claim of schooner Exact passenger John Alexander Sr. The Alexander Blockhouse is in about its original location, as shown on the Sanborn fire insurance map for Coupeville, although the blockhouse apparently was rotated towards NW Alexander Street during later restoration of the two-story hewn log fortification.

The donation land claim of schooner Exact passenger John Alexander Sr. Ebey on Ebey's Prairie. Terry, Esq. McClellan during the Pacific Railroad Surveys. The early development of both Seattle and Alki were noted in The Columbian vol. All the accounts that we receive from thence tell us of new buildings and other improvements.

Yesler's steam saw mill is working finely. Alki is full of vigor and go-aheaditiveness. Her commerce is increasing, and her men of business are doing well. Terry] will be in operation in a few days. The enterprising inhabitants of these two places, near together as they are, seem determined that their full, high and important destiny shall be achieved as speedily as possible.

The schooner Exact had been sold by February , since the Index to the Certificates of Enrollment Issued at San Francisco, —77 indicates that on February 20, , a new Certificate of Enrollment was issued for the schooner Exact and the managing owner listed in that index changed then from Isaiah Folger to Charles L.

Apparently around that time Captain Isaiah Folger returned to his hometown of Nantucket. Folger age Census, for the Town of Nantucket, lists Isaiah Folger age 65 as master mariner retired and living with his wife Sarah age After Captain Isaiah Folger retired from sailing he continued to do other work. The Sankaty Head light is located by Siasconset, where several generations of descendants of George Franklin Folger have lived. Census, for the Town of Nantucket, lists Isaiah Folger age 75 as working as a retail grocer and living with his wife Sarah age Captain Isaiah Folger apparently had a neighborhood grocery store for a while in his later years.

Working as a neighborhood grocer, or storekeeper, must have seemed rather tame after having sailed the schooner Exact in the Great Hurricane of and after having ventured forth hither and yon at sea and around Cape Horn to as far away as the verdant sylvan shores of the uncivilized Pacific Northwest and beyond.

Captain Isaiah Folger apparently did the modest work of a neighborhood grocer around the end of his life, however he had long sold various grocery items, ever since the s, while sailing in coasting trade. He died on June 30, , and in the Massachusetts death records vol. According to the Indexes to Certificates of Registration and Enrollment , the schooner Exact was sold several more times and was found mentioned several more times in newspapers from the next few years, with several different captains.

James J. She is a total loss. After taking on board three hundred barrels of salmon and ten tons of potatoes, and was ready for sea [destined for San Francisco], the wind coming on to blow from the southwest, with a bad sea running into the open harbor, it was impossible to beat her out. She then lay to two heavy anchors with ninety fathoms chain out until Monday, at 6 A. Captain Higgins raised a signal of distress, at which the Crescent City boatmen boldly ventured out through the surf and rescued the crew and passengers.

The schooner soon heeled on her beam ends, and in two hours went to pieces. That article says that only 12 or 15 barrels of salmon were saved and that the schooner Exact was a total loss. So within thirty years of having been built, in which time having sailed the Connecticut River and at sea off the East Coast and all the way around South America and then as far north as Russian America, which is now Alaska, the schooner Exact met its end in a change of seasons the first spring morning of off Crescent City, California.

Thus ends this quest in search of the schooner Exact information in old newspaper and other records of the day, illuminating a few more details lost in the foggy mists of time.

Listed are the certificate numbers, the managing owner's name at the time issued, and the date of registration or enrollment. Vessel documents issued at San Francisco for the schooner Exact :. Heiser on February 20, ; Certificate of Enrollment No. Congdon on September 22, ; Certificate of Registry No.

Fish on December 2, ; Certificate of Enrollment No. Congdon on March 2, ; Certificate of Enrollment No. Williams on December 31, ; Certificate of Enrollment No. Williams on March 19, ; Certificate of Enrollment No. American Russian Commercial Company. Pages 7—8. Bagley, Clarence. Volume 2. Chicago, IL: The S. Clarke Publishing Company, Pages —, —, —, —, —, —, — Bancroft, Hubert Howe.

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