Hi John, According to published accounts the tern schooner Charlevoix was built at Port Greville, NS by James E. Pettis. The vessel was abandoned at sea 4 February 1919 on the voyage from St. Andrew's, NB to Macoris. Among the owners was C.F Taylor. Possibly a typo, meaning O.F. Taylor. The tern schooner M.J. Taylor was built at Spencer's Island, NS in 1901 by Johnson Spicer for Captain O.F. Taylor of Charlottetown and owned in 1911 by Joseph Murphy of Lauzon, PQ. The M.J. Taylor was hauled out on the beach at Parrsboro in 1930 and scrapped. The death of a Maritime sea captain during the time period your interested in, would have been widely reported in Atlantic Canada newspapers. Plus most major Maritime papers carried shipping reports from all vessels owned in Nova Scotia, New Brunswick and PEI. Perhaps if you can access a newspaper from Halifax or Charlottetown through you local library you can follow the vessels voyages. Regards Jerry Titus Yarmouth, NS ----- Original Message ----- From: "O'Hanlon" <ohanlon@ece.arizona.edu> To: <MARINERS@rootsweb.com> Sent: Thursday, June 30, 2011 1:18 AM Subject: [MAR] Capt. Orestes Taylor > Captain Orestes Foote Taylor died of yellow fever in Paramaribo, > Surinam, sometime between 1902 and 1907. We do not know the year. > > We do know that he wrote my grandfather Foote a letter while he was > Master of the Charlevoix (out of PEI) with the date and location > given only as: "March 23, At Sea, Lat. 26.00 N, Long. 68.00 W." No > year was given. In it he states that: "...I commenced this letter at > sea and now am in port of Surinam Dutch port and the weather is very > warm here and some yellow fever." In that letter he also refers to > another ship that he had built, the M.J. Taylor, as "being on its > first voyage." The M.J. Taylor was registered in Dec. 1901. Records > show that the registry for the Charlevoix was closed May 16, 1907. It > was alleged that the crew returning it to Prince Edward Island after > his death lost it in a storm. The problem is that Capt. Taylor > sailed between ports like PEI, Barbados and Pramaribo many times, so > we do not know on which visit to that port he died. > > Thus, he could have been in port and died some time in the Spring of > 1902, or as late as Spring, 1907. > > Is there any record of Captain Taylor's death date? His home port was PEI. > > Cheers, John > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > MARINERS-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message > > > ----- > No virus found in this message. > Checked by AVG - www.avg.com > Version: 10.0.1388 / Virus Database: 1516/3733 - Release Date: 06/29/11 >