The pilot boat Joseph N. Lord was launched on February 7, 1840, from the Jabez Williams shipyard on the East River.

[3] On December 14, 1840, Jarvis P. Calvert of the pilot boat Joseph N. Lord, along with other pilots from the port of New York, stated in a public letter to the New York Daily Herald that they had never been employed by J. D. Stevenson as their agent and any services which he may have rendered their delegates at Washington, no compensation has been offered or demanded.

[4] On May 13, 1842, an apprentice Charles Allen, age 20, on the Joseph N. Lord, was lost when the main sheet hit him and knocked him overboard where he sank.

[6] The New York Pilotage reported that pilot boat Joseph N. Lord boarded and brought thirty one vessels safely into port in the past month for August 1844.

[7] The Joseph N. Lord was cleared to leave the port of New York on December 1, 1844, with Captain Jones for Port-au-Platt, Dominican Republic, now called Haiti.