Newport Steamboats
The Kentucky Gazette Friday June 4, 1819
"The Steam boat General Putnam was launched from
the ship yard of William Livingston, near the mouth of the Licking river, Ky. on
the evening of the 23d inst."
The Cincinnati Directory By a Citizen, Published by
Oliver Barnsworth Morgan, Lodge & Co. Printers
Issued in October of 1819, lists the following steamboats as being built
at Newport.
The General Putnam, 200 tons, built at Newport in 1819; owned by James W Byrne & Co. of Cincinnati. Intended for the New Orleans Trade
The Missouri, 175 tons, built at Newport; owned by John & Walker Yeatman, of Cincinnati; destined for the St. Louis trade.
The Newport, 50 tons, built at Newport in 1819, owned by a company at New Orleans, and now in the Red River trade.
The General Robinson, 20 tons,
built at Newport in 1819, owned by a company in Nashville, and employed in that
trade.