Captain Elisha Lindsay Halsey - stabbed to death by his ship's cook, John Kent of Liverpool, who successfully pleaded self-defence.
"Abandoning his birthplace - Sag Harbor, N.Y. - my great-great-grandfather moved to Charleston, marrying a South Carolinian who raised their four children while he was off at sea. In 1844 he sailed off never to return. A mutinous cook stabbed him to death on the deck of the mail packet ship Thomas Bennett while under sail in the Bay of Biscay.
His youngest son, my great-grandfather, had just turned 4 when the news of the captain's murder arrived. This suddenly orphaned toddler with thick Yankee bloodlines would come of age in the great crucible of the Civil War."
(Ashley Halsey III)
∼From Colin Chatfield;
Death GRO 3rd qtr 1844
HALSEY, Elisha Lindsay Liverpool 20 306
Ship immigration record.
New York, Passenger Lists
Name Elisha Lindsley Halsey [Master] - from Liverpool.
Event Type Immigration
Event Date 1841
Event Place New York City, New York
Gender Male
Ship Name Thomas Bennett
"Abandoning his birthplace - Sag Harbor, N.Y. - my great-great-grandfather moved to Charleston, marrying a South Carolinian who raised their four children while he was off at sea. In 1844 he sailed off never to return. A mutinous cook stabbed him to death on the deck of the mail packet ship Thomas Bennett while under sail in the Bay of Biscay.
His youngest son, my great-grandfather, had just turned 4 when the news of the captain's murder arrived. This suddenly orphaned toddler with thick Yankee bloodlines would come of age in the great crucible of the Civil War."
(Ashley Halsey III)
∼From Colin Chatfield;
Death GRO 3rd qtr 1844
HALSEY, Elisha Lindsay Liverpool 20 306
Ship immigration record.
New York, Passenger Lists
Name Elisha Lindsley Halsey [Master] - from Liverpool.
Event Type Immigration
Event Date 1841
Event Place New York City, New York
Gender Male
Ship Name Thomas Bennett
Captain Elisha Lindsay Halsey - stabbed to death by his ship's cook, John Kent of Liverpool, who successfully pleaded self-defence.
"Abandoning his birthplace - Sag Harbor, N.Y. - my great-great-grandfather moved to Charleston, marrying a South Carolinian who raised their four children while he was off at sea. In 1844 he sailed off never to return. A mutinous cook stabbed him to death on the deck of the mail packet ship Thomas Bennett while under sail in the Bay of Biscay.
His youngest son, my great-grandfather, had just turned 4 when the news of the captain's murder arrived. This suddenly orphaned toddler with thick Yankee bloodlines would come of age in the great crucible of the Civil War."
(Ashley Halsey III)
∼From Colin Chatfield;
Death GRO 3rd qtr 1844
HALSEY, Elisha Lindsay Liverpool 20 306
Ship immigration record.
New York, Passenger Lists
Name Elisha Lindsley Halsey [Master] - from Liverpool.
Event Type Immigration
Event Date 1841
Event Place New York City, New York
Gender Male
Ship Name Thomas Bennett
"Abandoning his birthplace - Sag Harbor, N.Y. - my great-great-grandfather moved to Charleston, marrying a South Carolinian who raised their four children while he was off at sea. In 1844 he sailed off never to return. A mutinous cook stabbed him to death on the deck of the mail packet ship Thomas Bennett while under sail in the Bay of Biscay.
His youngest son, my great-grandfather, had just turned 4 when the news of the captain's murder arrived. This suddenly orphaned toddler with thick Yankee bloodlines would come of age in the great crucible of the Civil War."
(Ashley Halsey III)
∼From Colin Chatfield;
Death GRO 3rd qtr 1844
HALSEY, Elisha Lindsay Liverpool 20 306
Ship immigration record.
New York, Passenger Lists
Name Elisha Lindsley Halsey [Master] - from Liverpool.
Event Type Immigration
Event Date 1841
Event Place New York City, New York
Gender Male
Ship Name Thomas Bennett
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