Identifier

SC-0016-I-D-1-A-138

Abstract

Handwritten and signed petition by the inmates of Sailors' Snug Harbor, to Captain Thomas Melville, requesting from Melville that the inmates be given more time during dinner and for the waiters to not clear plates right after prayers are said. The petition contains 40 signatures.

[Cataloger's Note: There are a few signatures on the petition that are indiscernible.]

Name

Name: Melville, Thomas, 1830-1884
Role: Addressee
Institutional Affiliation: Sailors' Snug Harbor (Institution)

Name: Safford, Joshua T., -1888
Role: Signer
Institutional Affiliation: Sailors' Snug Harbor (Institution)

Name: Nelson, John, -1891
Role: Signer
Institutional Affiliation: Sailors' Snug Harbor (Institution)

Name: Lundy, Charles, -1892
Role: Signer
Institutional Affiliation: Sailors' Snug Harbor (Institution)

Name: Leonard, John, -1887
Role: Signer
Institutional Affiliation: Sailors' Snug Harbor (Institution)

Name: Fudge, Thomas H., -1887
Role: Signer
Institutional Affiliation: Sailors' Snug Harbor (Institution)

Name: Hayes, Thomas, -1884
Role: Signer
Institutional Affiliation: Sailors' Snug Harbor (Institution)

Name: Shaw, Joseph M., -1878
Role: Signer
Institutional Affiliation: Sailors' Snug Harbor (Institution)

Name: Kramann, Erich A. (Erich Alberson), -1886
Role: Signer
Institutional Affiliation: Sailors' Snug Harbor (Institution)

Name: Erskine, Robert, -1879
Role: Signer
Institutional Affiliation: Sailors' Snug Harbor (Institution)

Name: Green, Cornelius C., -1882
Role: Signer
Institutional Affiliation: Sailors' Snug Harbor (Institution)

Name: Churchill, Samuel, -1884
Role: Signer
Institutional Affiliation: Sailors' Snug Harbor (Institution)

Name: Grant, Samuel, -1885
Role: Signer
Institutional Affiliation: Sailors' Snug Harbor (Institution)

Name: Gray, Martin, -1883
Role: Signer
Institutional Affiliation: Sailors' Snug Harbor (Institution)

Name: Parker, Charles, -1884
Role: Signer
Institutional Affiliation: Sailors' Snug Harbor (Institution)

Name: Ward, William, -1890
Role: Signer
Institutional Affiliation: Sailors' Snug Harbor (Institution)

Name: McDonald, Alexander, -1890
Role: Signer
Institutional Affiliation: Sailors' Snug Harbor (Institution)

Name: Young, Abraham, -1879
Role: Signer
Institutional Affiliation: Sailors' Snug Harbor (Institution)

Name: Hamilton, John, -1891
Role: Signer
Institutional Affiliation: Sailors' Snug Harbor (Institution)

Name: Levy, Henry, -1876
Role: Signer
Institutional Affiliation: Sailors' Snug Harbor (Institution)

Name: Wolgram, Isaac, -1878
Role: Signer
Institutional Affiliation: Sailors' Snug Harbor (Institution)

Name: Earl, William H., -1890
Role: Signer
Institutional Affiliation: Sailors' Snug Harbor (Institution)

Name: Paxton, William, -1879
Role: Signer
Institutional Affiliation: Sailors' Snug Harbor (Institution)

Name: Rickelson, Benjamin F., -1888
Role: Signer
Institutional Affiliation: Sailors' Snug Harbor (Institution)

Name: Crocker, Francis W., -1888
Role: Signer
Institutional Affiliation: Sailors' Snug Harbor (Institution)

Name: Russell, Edward H., -1878
Role: Signer
Institutional Affiliation: Sailors' Snug Harbor (Institution)

Name: Weeks, Edward, -1879
Role: Signer
Institutional Affiliation: Sailors' Snug Harbor (Institution)

Name: Harkness, George P., -1885
Role: Signer
Institutional Affiliation: Sailors' Snug Harbor (Institution)

Name: Burrows, John S., -1882
Role: Signer
Institutional Affiliation: Sailors' Snug Harbor (Institution)

Name: Cummings, Charles P., -1877
Role: Signer
Institutional Affiliation: Sailors' Snug Harbor (Institution)

Name: Colburn, Ebenezer, -1876
Role: Signer
Institutional Affiliation: Sailors' Snug Harbor (Institution)

Name: Smith, F. L. A. M., -1885
Role: Signer
Institutional Affiliation: Sailors' Snug Harbor (Institution)

Name: Hyde, William
Role: Signer
Institutional Affiliation: Sailors' Snug Harbor (Institution)

Name: Boden, Edward, -1878
Role: Signer
Institutional Affiliation: Sailors' Snug Harbor (Institution)

Name: Treadwell, Henry, -1878
Role: Signer
Institutional Affiliation: Sailors' Snug Harbor (Institution)

Name: Robison, Alexander
Role: Signer
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: September 1875
Place: New Brighton (New York, N.Y.)

Genre

petitions

Physical Description

extent: 42.7 x 19.6 cm
Digital Origin: Reformatted digital