Ship Bonetta Arrives at Port Royal After Fleet Wreck
August 20 Kingston reports His Majesty's ship Bonetta reached Port Royal with officers and crew from Lowestoft and ships cast away on Little or Great Heneaga. Several crews survived, except purser Buckley and four Lowestoffe seamen who are lost. The remaining ships sailed next day under convoy, with some wrecked men possibly picked up in the offing.
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Kingston
Jats
Port Royal
Heneaga
Fanny
Melville
Jason
Watt
Bully Park
Brown
Milton
Robley
Swansea
Warden
Bostock
Kelly
Grand
Irving
Milford
Walker
Harn Stamper
Buckley
Remarkable Hartford gale tears roofs and windows
On Tunesday night around midnight Hartford endured a violent gale described as the town's most remarkable wind event. It lasted minutes, brought heavy rain and hail, ripped roofs from the City Hall and Mr Jonathan Roof's house, toppled trees, and caused widespread damage locally with little report of damage nearby.
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House of Me
Jonathan
Ship Lydia Fire Disaster and Rescue Near New Bedford
Captain Mason reports that on the agth of July the ship Lydia from Petersburg caught fire near Wewewes and burned to the sea. Elihu Smith and crew saved themselves in a boat and reached the brig Maria and Janey from Newport. No injuries aboard Lydia. all hands survived.
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New-York
Mason
Sarah
Liverpool
Stag
Cornelius Nelson
Thomas
Hamburgh
Lydia
Elihu Smith
Petersburg
Bedford
Iain Smith
Uithaly
Weewees
Smith
Maria
Janey
Newport
Isle ‘of Wight
Portsmouth
New Hampshire
President’s repair demand sparks Paris faction note
The President has ordered swift repairs and Paris shows amicable disposition toward the United States. The expected event related to our treaty with the republic is not yet occurred, as reported by British newspapers.
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Livingston
Paris
Sgarlevos stember: captain Coffhe at Madeira
Fragmentary OCR reads as a brief note about Sgarlevos and Stember with captain Coffhe at Madeira, lacking clear action or outcome and limited readable details.
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Sgarlevos
Stember
Coffhe
Madeira
English occupy island with two frigates and ten transports
Report describes English possession of an island with two figates and ten transports. A vessel at Teneriffe brought news that Russia declared war on France. The Harmony Jef Bourdeaux carried twenty eight French passengers and rumours spoke of Bonaparte preparing a force for Egypt under his own command.
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Ibapr
Coffin Ie Deotishs
Teneriffe
Ruffia
France
Harmony Jef. Bourdeaux
Egypt
Mediterranean
Bonaparte
Georgetown Marriage Bridgeheads in Williamsburgh Township
In Georgetown South Carolina on September 30 1801 report notes the marriage on September 22 of Mr Michael Blackwell to Mrs Mary Du Pre of Williamsburgh township. A natural history curious tale recounts a New York Americans magazine anecdote describing flocks of birds diving into the river and vanishing from surface sight in the town vicinity observed with a telescope and related to Mr Jacob Sebor.
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Michael Blackwell
Mary du Pre
Williamsbuburgh Township
H. Pollock
New-York
Nieeneanen
Jacob Sebor
Wallow
Croffin
Phesihey
Sebor
Jon
Swallows Tally Vanish After August 24 1798 Observation
The observer notes that swallows disappeared on August 24 1798 and were not seen for the remainder of that year.
Population figures from late London papers
The article notes Spain's population near ten million and England around eight and a half million. It mentions English travelers heading to Paris for a festival on July 4, and describes St Ubés near the Tagus as a thriving Portuguese merchant town with 15 firms and 2000 to 3000 houses, exporting wine and oranges and hosting extensive salt works supplying Denmark and Sweden.
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Spain
England
St. Ubés
Taguil Fo Muth
Britain
Portugal
Port of Georgetown Cleaned Out Sloop Maria Boldly Recovered
Port Georgetown reports the sloop Maria, under Captain Lamb, cleared from Crooked Island and New Providence with a suspected haul. Local authorities note standard salvage and recovery operations aboard the vessel.
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Georgetown
Maria
Lamb
Crooked Island
New
Providence
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Hartford
S.C. Wednesdir
London
Lin Od
George Herioty
Patrick. Donnel
Joseph
White
Samuel Greeny
Commiss
Fobey
Indian Town
Nathaniel Snow
Pee Ses
Benjamin Screwen
Withers
Haateguin
Chambers
Francis Withers
Sampit
Justas WM
Allston
Cornelis du Pre
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