The Wreck of the Ship New Era upon the New Jersey Coast, November 13, 1854

Table of contents :
CHAPTER I
PAGES
TiiK Wreck of the New Era 1-16
CHAPTER II
Contemporaneous Accounts of the Great Disaster 17-26
CHAPTER III
Statements of Captain and Crew 27-35
CHAPTER IV
Passengers Who Were Saved 36-44
CHAPTER V
A List of the Lost Identified and Unidentified 45-55
LIST OF PLATES
Wreck of the Clipper Ship "New Era". ..Frontispiece
FACING PAGK
Group of Portraits 4
Portrait of Edward Wardell 9
Bradley Monument 15
Time Post and Anchor 20
New Era Monument 52

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lPenn6^l\>ania: THE GERMAN INFLUENCE IN ITS

SETTLEMENT AND DEVELOPMENT

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IRarrative an& Critical fjistor?

PREPARED BY AUTHORITY OF

THE PENNSYLVANIA-GERMAN SOCIETY

PART XVI THE WRECK OF THE SHIP UPON THE

NEW ERA

NEW JERSEY COAST, NOVEMBER

PUBLISHED BY THE SOCIETY

13,

1854

publication Committee.

JULIUS

F.

SACHSE,

DANIEL W. MEAD,

HENRY

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JULIUS FRIEDRICH SACHSE,

Part

XVI.

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of a Narrative and Critical History PREPARED AT THE REQUEST OF

The Pennsylvania-German Society

LANCASTER, 1907

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Copyrighted BY THE penns^IvaniaaOerman

1907 Society;.

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