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Name | James Prior | |
Suffix | ^ | |
Gender | Male | |
Death | 5 Nov 1813 | |
Person ID | I12019 | Brookhaven & South Haven Hamlets |
Last Modified | 28 Sep 2009 |
Documents | The 1813 Calamity from Osborne Shaw's "History of Fire Place, NY" .. of which eleven local fisherman lost their lives in the Atlantic off Fire Island | |
A Melancholy Occurence .. a contemporary report of the 1813 incident where eleven men lost their lives while fishing in the Atlantic Ocean south of Fire Island, as recorded in the Long Island Star (Brooklyn), 17 Nov 1813. | ||
South Haven's 1813 Tragedy.. This August 1946 article in the Long Island Forum by Clarence Ashton Wood is a more or less modern account of this tragedy. Editors note: "Although the Forum from time to time has carried brief references to the incident here described, we believe this to be the most complete account yet given. That it is by an author whose high regard for… |