Water Monster · New York · 1740

NY-1740ID case-529f430bd4Fallback locationAdded to map Oct 30, 2026

The account

Captain Laurence d Ferry swore he chased a sea serpent with a crew of sailors in a rowboat, describing it as 600 feet long with a horse-like head.

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Creature: Water Monster
Where: New York, United States
mapped to town level · from the newspaper's printing town, not where it was seen
Fallback location (drawn hollow on the map): this is the newspaper's printing town, not where it was seen.
When: 1740
Account: Not first-hand (retold or reported by someone else)
Backed by: 1 independent source (2 documents; copies and reprints are not confirmations)
Added to map: Oct 30, 2026
Case id: case-529f430bd4

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Down the rabbit hole → 2 documents, and how they connect

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Image 7 of The sun (New York [N.Y.]), December 7, 1893
Newspaper · 1893-12-07
Earliest found, not necessarily the original.

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