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Schenectady boat Hist. 
a kind of bateau in use on the St. Lawrence River in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, so called because similar to a class of boats identified with Schenectady, N.Y.
- 1806 (1904) [Those boats are from Canada in the betteaux form and wide in proportion to their length, their length [being] about 30 feet and the width 8 feet & pointed bow and stern, flat bottom and rowing six ores only the Skenackeity form.]
- 1807-1816 (1798) Taken up, Some time last fall, in the mouth of the Niagara River, by the subscriber, a three hand Schenectady Boat.
- 1905 The Durham and Schenectady boats used on the St. Lawrence before the days of the steamboat were only a form of bateaux.
- 1806 (1904) [Those boats are from Canada in the betteaux form and wide in proportion to their length, their length [being] about 30 feet and the width 8 feet & pointed bow and stern, flat bottom and rowing six ores only the Skenackeity form.]