[NEW YORK] -- [MEMORIAL]. An Elegy of the Death of Captain Annanias Valentine, Thomas Pinckney, Isaac Elliot, Jacamiah Cropsey, and Leonard Merrit, all respectable citizens of the town of Marlborough, who were unfortunately drowned on the Flatts.
Sale 1095 - American Historical Ephemera & Photography, Featuring Property from the James Milgram, M.D., Collection of Broadsides, Ephemeral Americana & Historical Documents
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Nov 3, 2022
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[NEW YORK] -- [MEMORIAL]. An Elegy of the Death of Captain Annanias Valentine, Thomas Pinckney, Isaac Elliot, Jacamiah Cropsey, and Leonard Merrit, all respectable citizens of the town of Marlborough, who were unfortunately drowned on the Flatts.
[Marlborough, NY]: Jacamiah Cropsey, 4 January 1801.
Visible 13 3/16 x 17 in. printed broadside (significant loss along old creases, toned, appears to be linen-backed); framed to 18 3/8 x 22 in. (not examined out of frame).
A memorial broadside for five men who lost their lives "in attempting to go on shore on Friday morning, the 12th of December, 1800, in a violent storm of wind and rain." The broadside is dominated by five coffins, one for each man lost.
Visible 13 3/16 x 17 in. printed broadside (significant loss along old creases, toned, appears to be linen-backed); framed to 18 3/8 x 22 in. (not examined out of frame).
A memorial broadside for five men who lost their lives "in attempting to go on shore on Friday morning, the 12th of December, 1800, in a violent storm of wind and rain." The broadside is dominated by five coffins, one for each man lost.
Property from the James Milgram, M.D., Collection of Broadsides, Ephemeral Americana, and Historical Documents
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