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From: (Harry Dodsworth)
Subject: [Mar] Three snippets from the New York Times (1862)
Date: Sun, 2 Jun 2002 20:34:12 -0400 (EDT)

New York Times, August 26, 1862 (microfilm)

>From the Deaths column:
SMITH - suddenly, on board the schr, Maggie Van Dusen, on Saturday morning,
Aug. 23, DAVID SMITH of Leed's Point, N.J. Capt. Thomas Garwood, the
commander of the vessel, reports that the case was one of cholera morbus.
The remains will be buried at Aquia Creek, whither the vessel was bound.
He was a seaman, 21 years of age, and is a single man; his parents living
at Leed's Point N.J.
---> New Jersey papers please copy

This is the first time I've noticed the death of a seaman in the Deaths
column of the NYT. At best they got five words in the arrival report :-)

New York Times, August 29, 1862 (microfilm)

A CAPTAIN IN LUCK - HIRAM BARNEY, Esq., Collector of the Port, has received
from Her British Majesty's Government, testimonials for presentation to
Capt. THOMAS J. LEAVITT, master of the American ship Galena,
in consideration of his services in rescuing from peril at sea, the master
and crew of the British bark Defiance of Sunderland, in April last.

QUARANTINE MATTERS - The British steamer Khersonese has yellow fever
on board. She lies directly in the path of the Staten Island Ferry boats
and is surrounded more or less by vessels. Some action should be taken
in regard to her.


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Harry Dodsworth Ottawa Ontario Canada
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