A blank member's certificate template for the Pilot's Charitable Society that was part of the publication called, 'Memoir, prepared at the request of a committee of the Common council of the city of New York, and presented to the mayor of the city, at the celebration of the completion of the New York canal' printed by the order of the corporation of New York. In the top center, a classically dressed woman cradles an unclothed baby and consoles a crying child. The bottom of the certificate depicts a seascape with several vessels and a shoreline and lighthouse in the background. There is also a watermark, "GR."