I am new to the list and do not know Brooklyn sources. Sea Captain Robert Algernon Sidney Pittman led a pretty exciting life and career, but dies in obscurity. I find him in the 1850 US census in Ward 13, Kings Co with wife, children and probably son Robert following in his father's footsteps as a mariner. In 1852 Capt R A S Pittman puts down a mutiny on board ship in the passage from Liverpool to New York by shooting the instigator dead, an episode that makes the NY and London papers. In the 1859 Brooklyn City Directory, p 320, Pittman, Robert A S shipmaster, h. 94 S. 6th Pittman, Robert S B shipmaster, h. 94 S. 6th He is not on the US census in 1860. He takes his family to live in Liverpool in 1862 for the duration of the Civil War. By 1870, he is back in Ward 13, Kings Co, NY with his second wife Ada and son Malcolmson. Then he disappears. His widow and son are back in VA by 1880. Where did he live in 1875? When did he die and where is he buried? Does he have any descendents by his first marriage to his New York born wife Sarah? I would like to visit his home if still standing and his grave. Thanks for any help.