Ned Myers - A Survivor's Account of the Sinking of the Scourge

Ned Myers volunteered to accompany Captain Isaac Chauncey (among many other seamen) from the New York navy-yard to Oswego. Of the 72 aboard both ships, 53 would perish, and Ned Myers would be one of the handful of survivors from the Hamilton and Scourge disaster. Thirty years later, Myers related his adventures, including the capsizing of the Hamilton and Scourge, to James Fenimore Cooper.

 

The Account of the Sinking by Survivor Ned Myers

Other Accounts of the Sinking

The Crew List or 'Muster Roll of the U.S. Schooner Scourge'  signed by Capt. Chauncey.