Passenger listings in Cinncinati? Oh, the link says I am not a recognized user.

Today I spent reading online on one of the links I found and coincedently the book "4 Months in a Sneak-Box" by Nathaniel H. Bishop-1879, is also listed in the appendix of the book I mentioned to you. That is an interesting craft.

On a Heritage Quest search, from a book entitled Monongahela, the River and its Region by Richard T. Riley it said that owners of keelboats were required by law to give them names and register them at the custom house in Pittsburgh and "the records there give the names of many",... Maybe there are still records at Pittsburgh?

I learned that keelboats had a crew of 10 people, barges 50. There was a boat specializing in passengers called a packet boat I saw another term for the flat boat possibly, called Kentucky flats or broad-horns. Seems quite a few authors use family boats or shantyboats and I am not sure if these are also flat boats or something closer to a houseboat.

Very fascinating.

Deb