[Daniel McIntyre]

So you are saying Nicholas Roosevelt actually supervised construction and did not just pick up the boat, that means he had to be living in Pittsburgh at least some period of time when the boat was being built.

I am trying to understand the people buried around Isaac Hammitt and Captain Daniel Pollard at Versailles Cemetery. For sure Bishop James Roosevelt Bayley was a relative of both Nicholas Roosevelt, Teddy Roosevelt and a very close friend of Cardinal John McCloskey.

It looks like some of the Fulton, Roosevelt and Livingston families were Catholic. It also looks like at least some of the families of Hammitt and Pollard were also Catholic.

I wonder if this was because of Robert Fulton's stay in Catholic France with Albert Gallatin?

I believe everyone buried up on this hill were involved with riverboats one way or the other.

Isaac Hammitt is buried very close to the Lewis and Clark lot and I believe this family was connected to Albert Gallatin and maybe Thomas Jefferson.

Originally Posted by Robert Gudmestad

I don't know if Fulton owned a farm near Pittsburgh, but I do know that he did not supervise construction of the New Orleans. That was Nicholas Roosevelt's job. Fulton was attending to his shipping affairs on the Hudson River when the New Orleans was constructed.