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    NAME: Independence
    OTHER NAME(s): -
    REASON: capsized in storm
    DATE:  November 14, 1818
    LOCATION: Lake Erie, off Black River (Lorain), OH
    TYPE: schooner
    HULL TYPE: wooden
    BUILDER: ? 1818
    OWNER: John Brooks
    MASTER: Capt. J. Brooks
    TONNAGE: 
    LENGTH: 
    BEAM: 
    DEPTH: 
    CASUALTIES: 3
    SURVIVORS:  0
    
                          Cleveland, Ohio, November 24, 1818
                        MELANCHOLY SHIPWRECKS - The schooner
                       Independence of Sandusky, John Brooks
                       master and owner, John Chambers, sea-
                       man, cleared from the mouth of Black
                       river, on Sunday the 14th inst. for
                       Detroit, loaded with corn for John S.
                       Reid, esq. who sent his son Cornelius
                       Reid with Capt. Brooks to dispose of 
                       the corn. The vessel was capsized in a
                       gale - the cargo lost, and every soul
                       on board drowned.  The wreck drifted
                       on shore on Monday the 16th inst. near
                       the mouth of Black River, with her fore-
                       sail and jib, her main mast had been
                       carried away in the gail.
                              Kingston Chronicle
                                 Friday, Jan 1, 1819


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Sources: "Shipwrecks of the Lakes", Dana Thomas Bowen
         "Travels Through the Western Country", David Thomas - 1819
         newspaper article "Kingston Chronicle", Friday, Jan 1, 1819