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Photographer: Bill Coughlin
Taken: November 4, 2009
Caption: Honourable Hamilton Douglas Hallyburton Memorial
Additional Description: This memorial to Lt. Hamilton Douglas Halyburton is located in Trinity Church in Manhattan.

At Sandy Hook lye interred
The Remains
of the Honourable Hamilton Douglas Hallyburton, Son of Sholto Charles Earl of Morton and Heir of the Ancient Family of Hallyburton of Pitcurr in Scotland, who perished on this coast with twelve more young gentlemen and one common Seaman, in the spirited Discharge of Duty
on the 30th or 31st of December 1783
Born on the 10 of October 1763.
A youth who in contempt of hardship or Danger, though possessed of an ample Fortune served seven years in the British Navy with a manly Courage and seemed to deserve a better fate.

This plain Monumental stone is erected by his unhappy Mother Katherine Countess Dowager of Morton to his dear memory and that of his unfortunate companions.
James Champion     Lieutenant of Marines
Alexander Johnstone, George Paddy, Robert Haywood
Midshipmen
Charles Gascoigne     William Tomlinson
Andrew Hamilton     William Spry
William Scott     John McChain
David Reddie     Robert Wood
Young Gentlemen
George Towers     common seaman
Cast away, all found dead and frozen, and buried in one Grave.
Submitted: November 10, 2009, by Bill Coughlin of Woodland Park, New Jersey.
Database Locator Identification Number: p84988
File Size: 0.582 Megabytes

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