[1] The Abraham Leggett was registered as a pilot schooner with the Record of American and Foreign Shipping from 1876 to 1879.

Her dimensions were 82 ft. length on deck; 20.8 ft. breadth of beam; 8.4 ft. depth of hold; and 55-tons burthen.

She had placed pilots on board the brigs Emma Ives; George; from West Indies bound to New Haven; the steamship Gulf City; and the Mary Louisa from Charleston, bound to Boston.

[3] On September 4, 1866, a collision took place off Staten Island, at the Quarantine Station, between the schooner pilot boat Abraham Leggett and the Bremen bark Emilie.

4, was hit by the steamship Naples from Liverpool when the pilot-boat came along the side of the steamer attempting to board her.

Captain Kennedy of the steamer, said that he did not take responsibility for the loss of the boat because he was in no need of a pilot and the weather was too bad to board.