From the book "From Cape Charles to Cape Fear: The North Atlantic Blockading Squadron" by Robert M. Browning.
On 15 May 1863, thirty members of the Pasquotank guerillas jumped on board the sixty ton mailboat Arrow as she steamed by the drawbridge by Coinjack.
Proceeding down the canal, they also managed to surprise the crew of the ninety-four ton side-wheel steamer Emily.
They boldly sailed into Albemarle Sound and into the Chowan River and ascended the Blackwater River as far as Franklin, Virginia, far out of reach of the larger Union gunboats.
--Old B-Runner
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