Letter from Captain John Hall to Captain George Engs Thacher
Subject
Illness of George Engs Jr.; Yellow Fever; Death of George Engs Jr.; Embalming; Vault; Captain J. Crowell; Gov. J.F. Smith; Funeral; Proper burial; Marked grave site; John Duffie; Silver ring; Ship Chandlers; Captain Thacher; Partridge & BaxterAbstract
Letter from Captain John Hall, of the Schooner George Shepard, to Captain George Engs Thacher, concerning the death of his son, George Engs Jr. It is written on both sides of a greenish sheet and bears the letterhead of the Cape Cod Steamship Company, the ship is Dorothy Bradford. This is a copy, not the originalRelated items
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