Letter to the Governor, Sailors' Snug Harbor, from Thomas Ferguson, Inmate, Sailors’ Snug Harbor, [December 1889]
Identifier
SC-0016-I-D-1-B-259Abstract
Handwritten letter from Thomas Ferguson, inmate of Sailors' Snug Harbor, to the governor, explaining that he worked the previous summer washing leaves off the walk by the Monument and that in August, Captain [Hiram M.] Chaffee said that if he got ice from the hospital and served it, Chaffee would see that Ferguson was paid for it, however, that Chaffee had not even paid him enough to buy a box of matches. Received while Captain Gustavus D. S. Trask was the governor of Sailors' Snug Harbor.Name
Name: Ferguson, Thomas, -1893Role: Author
Institutional Affiliation: Sailors' Snug Harbor (Institution)
Type Of Resource
TextsNote
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: December 1889Place: New Brighton (New York, N.Y.)
Genre
letters (correspondence)Physical Description
extent: 20.3 x 12.6 cmDigital Origin: Reformatted digital
Subjects
Sailors' Snug Harbor (Institution)Chaffee, Hiram M., 1823-1897
Trask, Gustavus D. S. (Dunham Smith), 1837-1914
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