On February 14, 1846, Freeborn was on the pilot boat Blossom, cruising at sea outside Mantoloking, New Jersey, when he sighted the packet ship John Minturn from New Orleans. Pilot Freeborn went on board the John Minturn to guide her safely to port but ran into trouble when trying to guide the ship in a terrible icy hurricane. The ship was pushed toward the Jersey Shore and ran ashore on Squan Beach. Thirty-eight out of fifty-one persons perished including Thomas Freeborne. The disaster was commemorated in an 1846 lithograph by James D. Smillie and one by Nathaniel Currier of Currier and Ives, which shows visitors to Green-Wood paying respects at the monument to pilot Thomas Freeborn.
On February 14, 1846, Freeborn was on the pilot boat Blossom, cruising at sea outside Mantoloking, New Jersey, when he sighted the packet ship John Minturn from New Orleans. Pilot Freeborn went on board the John Minturn to guide her safely to port but ran into trouble when trying to guide the ship in a terrible icy hurricane. The ship was pushed toward the Jersey Shore and ran ashore on Squan Beach. Thirty-eight out of fifty-one persons perished including Thomas Freeborne. Freeborn's death was commemorated in two 1846 lithographs; one by James D. Smillie and another by Nathaniel Currier of Currier and Ives, which show visitors to Green-Wood paying respects at the monument to pilot Thomas Freeborn.
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