The biography of Capt Jacob Poe has been updated.  Data acquired from the Certificates of Enrollment for the port of Pittsburgh at the National Archives has been included for some of the early Poe family steamboats.  By “early” I mean before 1848 when Capt Way’s Packet Directory starts its history of steamboats. 

Capt Jacob Poe was also in command of several keel boats.  I intend to add data on these Georgetown keel boats in the near future.

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