Stokes records; notes regarding the ancestry and lives of Anson Phelps Stokes and Helen Louisa (Phelps) Stokes . charge ofthe sails. When opposite Miantonomi Hill, near some United Statesmen-o-war, we jibed toward the shore. The main-sheet was entan-gled in one of the mens feet, and did not render, and the boat wasupset and sunk. Frank Hillnar, one of the seamen, was and Anson could not swim, but they promptly obeyed myinstructions to place their hands on my shoulders, and I sustainedthem in the water until I got hold of a life-preserver which hadfloated from the boat. Soon two
Stokes records; notes regarding the ancestry and lives of Anson Phelps Stokes and Helen Louisa (Phelps) Stokes . charge ofthe sails. When opposite Miantonomi Hill, near some United Statesmen-o-war, we jibed toward the shore. The main-sheet was entan-gled in one of the mens feet, and did not render, and the boat wasupset and sunk. Frank Hillnar, one of the seamen, was and Anson could not swim, but they promptly obeyed myinstructions to place their hands on my shoulders, and I sustainedthem in the water until I got hold of a life-preserver which hadfloated from the boat. Soon two launches from the men-o-war cameto our assistance, and we went in the launch of the Minnesota to thatvessel, Captain W. J. Gillis. My wife, with the Rev. D. ParkerMorgan^ and Mrs. Morgan, had come from New London via ? Rector of the Church of the Heavenly Rest, New York, where I was long a vestryman1:2263 MRS. KILLICKIn East Pasture at New Brighti At NEW BRIGHTONStaten Island, 1879 rv;;^ mm ^•^:^ hm «? ^i^K;^ l?>-^ ? ?.:.-,,^C^ W^ M m^-l0^^ ^ -^^ ^m $u^_ i^*^i5? ^^^^^L^^^yi ^ \i^^^^| ,
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