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HISTORIAN’S CORNERThe Brig Owyhee’sAnchor Goes HomeOn December 8, 2008 Portland Yacht Club,Commodore Berkeley and First LadyCarole Smith lead representatives from theHistory Committee and Board of Trustees in presentingon permanent loan the Oywhee’s anchor tothe Museum of the Oregon Territory, Oregon City,OR. The anchor was lost less then a mile from themuseum.The story began in 1829 when Captain JohnDominis sailed the Brig Owyhee to the Meldrum Barwhere the Clackamas River joins the Willamette. Heanchored there and attempted to get the ClackamasIndians to fish for him. Their negotiations wentsour and the Indians cut the anchor. In 1933, theCorps of Engineers dredged the river and found theanchor. The dredge Captain took it home and put itinto his chicken coop. Stuart Mockford, a prominentOregon City architect researched and becameintrigued with the Owyhee story. In 1963, Mockfordretrieved the anchor from the chicken coop andkept it in his office until 1998 when he donated it toPYC.PYC has since preserved this anchor. His nephewJim Mockford did considerable research on CaptainDominis and the Owyhee. Dominis had a great dealto do with the trade to Hawaii and the Orient. Jim’sfather was able to attend the presentation.The story has some interesting aspects such as Mr.Jones, a mate on the Owyhee had malaria and in1830, ninety (90) percent of the Indians in the Willamette/Columbiadied from the “cold sweat” ormalaria. The Indians called this the curse of the Owyhee.When the Owyhee returned to Boston, MA, theUS Customs charged them a tariff as they consideredOregon a “foreign country”. Oregon was adisputed territory between the English(McLoughlin) and the Americans (Astoria). A great“what if” of history would be, if the English knewthat the United States considered Oregon to be“foreign country” then they might have won theirclaim to Oregon and we would now be CanadiansEH.Walter A. WitschardStuwart MockfordThe sign reads:“This anchor was lost in1829 in the WillametteRiver at the mouth ofthe Clackamas by theAmerican trading BrigOwyhee out of Boston,Capt. John Dominis,Master, when Indianscut the hawser settingthe vessel adrift. It wasrecovered in 1933 deepin the gravel of MeldrumBar by a U.S.Army Corps of Engineersdredge deepeningthe channel.”10 PortlandYC.com January 2009
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