[or-roots] First in Oregon City - 1843

[Peggy Rowe]

Neat story!!

I'm looking for stories such as this.  I descend from the Vanatta's who came
to Oregon in 1852 on the Macey train.
They ended up in Oregon City, and at the 'Foster's Farm" for awhile... at
least that if family history. We are looking for proof of that.
They went on to Linn county for awhile.  But, ended up in Brush Prairie, WA
(now part of vancouver) and helped to found that little city.

Thank you for sharing your stories.. they help me to put my great great
great grandparent's life into perspective!
If anyone knows anything about the Vanatta's or about the Rowe's (Eugene,
Silverton, Mollala, etc) or the Coop's (Portland, Woodburn, WA) please let
me know.  Thanks, Peggy Rowe peggy at image2000.com
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From: "Cecil Houk" <cchouk at cox.net>
To: "or-roots" <or-roots at sosinet.sos.state.or.us>; <OREGON-L at rootsweb.com>
Sent: Friday, February 14, 2003 10:16 PM
Subject: [or-roots] First in Oregon City - 1843


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>
>       Nineveh Ford's narrative
> Time & Place: Room 8 Chemeketa Hotel
>  Salem, Oregon  Monday June 17th 1878
> Present: Ford & the writer: AB
>
> ......
>
>    Then we sailed down the Columbia to the mouth of the Willamette.  After
we got into the
> Willamette there came up a gale of strong wind up the river in the
direction we were going and that
> endangered our craft it finally raised the waves six feet high and they
would slush over the entire
> craft and cargo and over our heads.  It required two Indians and two white
men to bale out the
> canoes, a man to each canoe.  They found that they could bale it out as
fast as it would slush in.
> I kept the craft as near in the middle of the river because it was
smoother there than it was near
> the shore.  Our craft ran very rapidly up the stream until we got to the
rapids below Oregon City.
> There the wind slacked up and we tied up for the night.  In the morning we
towed the craft over the
> rapids with ropes 4 men and myself and we got to Oregon City.  It was the
first cargo of wagons that
> ever was landed at Oregon City by land or sea.  They were landed on the
10th day of November 1843.
>
>      At the Cascades there was a Negro woman, and there was a canoe tied
up on the shore.  The Negro
> woman went out into the canoe to dip up some water, and the canoe sheered
from under her and she
> fell in and disappeared.  She was never seen again.  She had been a
servant attached I think to
> Burnett or his brother-in-law's family.
>
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