Name/Title

Letter

Entry/Object ID

1995.014.0004

Scope and Content

handwritten letter to son(Charley Pendleton?) from Susan Sherman Pendleton; she reports James Herrick was drowned on passage from Boston to Lisbon in The Dauntless in a storm, Alvin Warren, Master, and Charley Coombs, Mate. Includes notes from Charley's brother Thomas, his mother S E Pendleton, and sister Eliza. Dated Islesboro April 16, 1871.