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ifwilmingto jv;T:iuxsnjri June 2, 1803.ErJrtft of a Ltilt;r from Captain John Brjirff* of the RcxettU€-Cuttery to oneif our Pot rJcnsy dotcd Smithvilk,Hay 2.2.44 On Wednesday last, I went with Col. Williams, in Mr. Long’s boat, out of the New'Inlct with an intent to go as fy; xhe gulph stream ; but in the evening standing towards the fryingpan, We perceived a wreck a little tothe westward of the shoal. We imrmediately ma tt for it, look it in tow, and made sail for the main bar, but it j being dirk, grounded on the point of the Middle-ground ; wc then left it and anchored off the Light-house ; on the•vixt morning observed the wreck hud driven months mid He-ground'opposite the point of Bald-Head ; it bang low water we went to her and found her to be the hull ofabrig named the'14I a ^ * - — p m 1lilcrmr of Liverpool, N. S. She appears to he a new vessel ; nothing left above deck but t;*c stump of the main mast; the Foremast and windlass, entirely gone, and every bit of the rigging. Since beinjy on the Middle-ground, Mr. Lang, and his crew bare ■ with gigs, fee. hauled up a quantity of sailors1 cloths, piyces of broken chests,two quad rants, .and one barrel of beef \ and t h s 7 t: i *q rm mr there a re s t* v c* r 11 empty sugar hugshetuL, jars of u : a 1 rinds, kc. on tioard. One of die boys, I believe Mr. Springs's boy Bel for or Christian, in bringing up some cloths out of the run with a harpoon, brought up pi?t of n bag whh twenty-one dollars in it— the hag appeared La tear usthey brought it up. It is probable^thore may be more ca*h». u The wind Mowingfrtuh from the * 'Eastward, the vessel is drove further on the shoal, and may nut be got of! without a deal oftrotiblV, if at all/1We since underiUftd that the wreckhas bilged and will certainly he lo»l.
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Wilmington Gazette
Wilmington, North Carolina, US
Thu, Jun 02, 1803
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