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Start Over You searched for: Collection Grimke family papers, 1678-1977 ✖Remove constraint Collection: Grimke family papers, 1678-1977 Contributing Institution College of Charleston Libraries ✖Remove constraint Contributing Institution: College of Charleston Libraries Date 1826-03-06 ✖Remove constraint Date: 1826-03-06 Date Range (beta) 1826 ✖Remove constraint Date Range (beta): 1826 Subject (Geographic) Fort Moultrie (S.C.) ✖Remove constraint Subject (Geographic): Fort Moultrie (S.C.)

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1. Letter from Benjamin King giving an acoount of the wreck of the "Harvest" and death of Lieutenant Benjamin Grimke, March 6, 1826

Letter from Benjamin King giving an acoount of the wreck of the
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1826-03-06
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A letter from Benjamin King (Ft. Moultrie, 1826) describes the wreck of the ship Harvest off the coast of North Carolina in which Lieutenant Benjamin Grimke and his infant daughter were drowned, but which his wife and King survived; with details on their shipwreck on Boddy's Island, wreckers salvaging the ship, burial of the dead and travel to Roanoke.

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