Letter to Captain Thomas Melville, Governor of Sailors' Snug Harbor, from Jane Jenkins, March 18, 1880


Identifier
SC-0016-III-A-1-0178
Abstract
Handwritten letter from Jane Jenkins to Captain Thomas Melville that appears to be a response to a letter she received from him regarding her husband, in which he appears to have asked her if she knows whether or not her husband has drowned and, if so, what the circumstances were. [Cataloger's note: Based on the dates, this appears to be William Jenkins, d. February 20, 1880] She explains that she does not know what happened, but that her husband was hired by a man named Harry Miner to watch on board the brig "Mary Fink, belonging to a Captain Spencer of Brooklyn." However, the following Saturday, her daughter was met by a policeman who told her that her father was dead and in the morgue. Mrs. Jenkins explains that two men on the dock had told a mate on the vessel "Templar" that there was a man overboard, and when he was fished out, Jenkins was dead "with a large hole on the side and back of his head and his face, all bruised." She explains that she is destitute with three children. 
Name
Name: Jenkins, Jane
Role: Author

Name: Melville, Thomas, 1830-1884
Role: Addressee
Institutional Affiliation: Sailors' Snug Harbor (Institution)
Type Of Resource
Texts
Note
The collection is on permanent loan at the Stephen B. Luce Library of SUNY Maritime College. The Sailors' Snug Harbor records are the Property of the Trustees of the Sailors’ Snug Harbor. 
Origin Info
Date Created: March 18 1880
Place: New York (N.Y.)
Genre
letters (correspondence)
Physical Description
extent: 17.9 x 22.6 cm
Digital Origin: Reformatted digital