Alexandria gazette, commercial and political. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1812-1817, 1815-11-16

Iafte' brown was taken IRON the wreck
pIhe lost his eye sight in consequence Of
oIextreme weakness Of body but She
-lregained strenth, his sight was gradually
,irestered.
Il The J0nquille belonged to Messrs
lCox and Montaudevert Of this city and
lthe following is list ef the officers and
fIsrew:
| John Wood, commander,
| David Price, mate,
i -- Waterbury, supercargo,
/ William Mathews fcoIored many cook,
i Simones Dominis {Italiau) seaman,
Peter Davis Portuguese do.
i Ueorge Snate, do.
| Peter Hughes, do.
] Nicholas Brown, the deponent, do.
| apt. Wood has LETT wife and two
tcllildren, residents in this city.
j BROWNS DEPosITfoS.
i CITY Of Neac- York, IS.
i Nicholas Brown, of the city of New.
York, mariner, man of color, late
seaman on board the schr. Jonquille,
whereof John Wood was master, being
duly sworn, doth depose and say, that
ion the third day Of SEPTEMBER last, he
Isailed from the port of New-Yoi k, bound
to Jacqnelnel, in the island of ST. Do.
Imingo |; that on or about the 10th Of the
said month, they experienced very
heavy gale from the southeast, and were
lobliged to lie to under bare poles. n
blowing a perfect hurricane that vhiHe
j lying to, the said schooner was upset:
THAT before they had time to cut away
the masts, or do any thing to relieve the
vessel, the master, supercargo, and A
passenger, and all the crew exceptiny
The deponent, the mate and one hand,
were washed overheard and drowned /:
THAT the survivors of the said crew re-
mained dashed to the wreck without any.
thing to subsist upon until Friday the str,
when the mate died, aud on The ioi,ow-
ling day the other man also persisted;
and that on the succeeding day, Sunday,
this deponent was taken off the wreck BY (
the ship Urbano, bound from New.YOrk
Ito Jamaica,
N, BROWN, - bis mark.
Sworn to before me, this 18th dayot
November IN the year of our Lord, 1915.
WIN. KEESE, Notary Public.
Loss Of the sloop Hunter.-By the fol-
lowing extract Of letter to respecta.
bic mercantile house in this city, it ap.
pears that the sloop Hunter Of this port,
foundercd at sea early in October. She
sailed from New-York on the Gath Of
bound to Maracsbo, Spa
nish Maine, with cargo of -four and
Indian Germ:
6 Turks Island, Oct 20.
" In lon. 60, 60, / discovered strange
all and soon after spoke British ship,
and took from her the crew of the soOp
Hunter, Capt. Case, from New-York.-
Il have had them on board 10 days"
Loss of the Brig George Washington
Of Castine. Hutson Bishop, confman-
der, came passenger in the Mary Ann
from St. Domingo -
ssSailed from st. Pierres, Mart. On
the Esd Aug. bound to Castine-on the
|sOth. Porto Rico bearing S. W. distance
|about 90 lea. was upset by a vlolen
|oale of wind.-The weather lanyyars
we're Immediately cut away, and tne
mast went over when she righted tu o
water about halt an hour after isIas,
Jordan (the cook) was washed os srO es
and lost. The sea continually breah
lover us, after the gale abated we ioun1J
the foremost had got out of the step a.. ~.
had ripped off number ofplanks u q, w.
main deck. which made it imposslossJ.t
|us to free the wreck. as the man o'S
was under water. Upon making sesg 4
for fresh water, found to our ast eaId
ment but one cask. and that was iaps% ",
salt water, the cask being venteq M
fresh water had run ont and the @e hi
lin. We found some pi ces OF besr
could not eat it for wa Ct water. a. q
br;r passed us DAYS af;srthe gale, s, s,L )
out seeing us.-After being on the Wis VIII, d
Is days without water, she d,iftea !, CHI Hs t
breakers Of Mimong. the East enc = y ht '
paniola we saw a man on the beao@ a
the sea ran too high to enable Oln !, 6 n g
men and the mate suceeeaea - Tx sDd g
ing the shore by the help oil q P ,,ss bsl il
the mercy of Providence. hets "a ii
found . Spaniard who took them I'm "th,i
..s.,s ~ na;d them every attention fS s