December 4 Sunday – A.B. Chambers arrived in New Orleans.

November 30 Wednesday – Sam’s 24 th birthday.

November 23 Wednesday – A.B. Chambers left for New Orleans.

November 20 Sunday – A.B. Chambers arrived in St. Louis.

November 9 Wednesday – A.B. Chambers left for St. Louis.

November 7 Monday – A.B. Chambers arrived in New Orleans.

October 26 Wednesday – Sam left for St. Louis as the pilot of the A.B. Chambers (410 tons), copilots James C. DeLancey and Will Bowen; Captain George W. Bowman.

October 13? Thursday – Sam wrote to Elizabeth W. Smith (Aunt Betsy b.1794 or 5) from St. Louis. Smith was not really Sam’s aunt, but a friend of his mother. As he explained it in his Autobiography,

October 2 to 25 Tuesday – Sam stayed “at home awhile” in St. Louis until he learned that he was to pilot the A.B. Chambers [MTL 1: 95n4].

October 1 Saturday – The Edward J. Gray arrived St. Louis.