The monument was built by the New York pilots in 1847 and is located at the top of Battle Hill at the Green-Wood Cemetery.

[1][2] 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.

[3] The ship was pushed toward the Jersey Shore and ran ashore on Squan Beach.

The front of the sarcophagus is surrounded with a representative of the actual sea storm and shipwreck.

A pillar rises from the capstan that depicts a cutoff mast and crowned with a figure of Hope still holding on to her anchor and pointing to the heaven.