35038. LN- “Wreck Master” Appointment Certificate, Suffolk County Long Island c.1869..
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35038. LN- “Wreck Master” Appointment Certificate, Suffolk County Long Island c.1869..
35038. Original New York State “Wreck Master” Appointment Certificate, County of Suffolk. Signed in hand by the Governor of New York State. c.1861 – 1869. Certificates measure 10 ½” x 16 ½” and include applied seal of New York State. Signed in hand by the Governor and by the Secretary of State.
“…Wreck Masters, appointed by the New York State Governor from 1787 on, were required to help victims and protect property belonging to wrecked ships, rescue service on Long Island relied on volunteers until the founding of the Life-Saving Service, a federal agency, in 1871”.
The appointment certificate for March 24, 1810 describes the duties of the Wreck Masters as follows: “…to aid and assist all such ships and vessels as may happen to be stranded on the coasts of said county of Suffolk with full power and authority to them…. to give all possible aid and assistance to all such ships and vessels and to the people on board of the same and to use their utmost endeavors to save the same and to save preserve and … for the purposes aforesaid the cargoes of all such ships and vessels and all goods and chattels whatsoever which may at any time be cast by the sea upon the shore and to employ such and so many men for the purpose as they may think proper. To have and to hold exercise and enjoy the said office together with the fees profits perquisites privileges and advantages to the same by law belonging or appertaining unto them…. “
Certificate lists the individual being appointed and his town of residence, and the person whom he is replacing.
Long Island town represented includes Sayvile. Suffolk County.
1869
Appointing Samuel T. Green of Sayville. (VG+) $285
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