Grave of Samuel Pierpont, Fishers Island, N. Y.

postcard

POSTCARDS
USA, NY, Fishers Island
paper card
overall: 3 1/2 x 5 1/2 in.

Black and white photographic postcard; view of flat gravestone overlooking ocean, wooden sign to right; printed above "Grave of Samuel Pierpont, Pastor of the first Church/ of Lyme, Conn, who was drowned in the Con-/ necticut River. Body found and buried/ on Fisher's Island, N. Y., April 28th,/ 1723./ Fisher's Island, N. Y." No message on reverse; printed on reverse "B 7841/ Series 123.".


1999.205.14

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