. The Hovey book, describing the English ancestry and American descendants of Daniel Hovey of Ipswich, Massachusetts. nd Karck, Esq., Consul for the City of Hamburg. Dear Sir : I have this day had the honor of receiving through youa gold medal, also a beautifully engrossed document expressing the pleas-ure you feel in being made the medium through which the Senate of Ham-burg has seen fit to present me with the above memorial. In return, allow me to tender, through you, to the honorable Senate,my most sincere and heartfelt thanks for the notice is has been pleased totake of a transaction upon
. The Hovey book, describing the English ancestry and American descendants of Daniel Hovey of Ipswich, Massachusetts. nd Karck, Esq., Consul for the City of Hamburg. Dear Sir : I have this day had the honor of receiving through youa gold medal, also a beautifully engrossed document expressing the pleas-ure you feel in being made the medium through which the Senate of Ham-burg has seen fit to present me with the above memorial. In return, allow me to tender, through you, to the honorable Senate,my most sincere and heartfelt thanks for the notice is has been pleased totake of a transaction upon which I shall ever look back with gratitude. This testimonal will recall to me and mine an occasion in whichProvidence enabled me to aid my suffering fellow-creatures and willremind us of the generous appreciation of my conduct at that time, insuch a manner as to incite to new efforts for others. I did no more than my duty, and trust that the notice which hasbeen taken of the rescue of the passangers of the Helena Sloman, maystimulate others of my profession to still greater exertions for those whoare in Testimonial from the City of New York to Captain Henry Russell Hovey AND HIS DESCENDANTS 3I7 Allow me, also, to express my thanks to you personally, for thecordial and flattering interest you have manifested in this matter. Thegift has been made more valuable by all the accompanying circumstancesof its presentation. Mr. Moore, first officer of the Devonshire, has also received amedal, and unites with me in thanks to the honorable the highest respect I remain, yours truly, (Signed) HENRY R. HOVEY, Captain of the American Packet-Ship Devonshire. A superb silver speaking trumpet was given to CaptainHovey by cabin passengers on the rescued vessel. It weighedforty-two ounces and was inlaid with gold, having on it an em-bossed representation of the act of rescue and the loss of the mate,three seamen and five passengers by the upsetting of the boatwhich they were
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