Delaware gazette and peninsula advertiser. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1814-1820, 1817-08-20
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NOTICE..


lbellants, in the woiss following, to wit:
To the hon. John Fisher. Esq. Judgfl
of the District Court Of the United
States, in and for The Delasoarel
District.
| THE libel Of Robert II. Howard and Rich.
ard Bebee, Pilots. Of Lewestown, in the Del
aware District, humbly sheweth
That OH Thursday, the present month, July
the tenth, about 9 o'clock in the morning, the
sad Robert H Howard and Richard Bcbee,
beng on board the Pilot Buat Elizabeth, pursu
ing their business and ocoupa,io" as Plots, they
discovered schooner Oh Indian River steering
about a north course, upon which hey bore|
down for her, found her to BIT YES ell If abuu
twenty tons hurtheu, and upon hslug her werel
answered, she was from New ORLEANS & bouud
to New York. That the said Robert Fl HowardI
and Richad Bcbee supplied thrm with somel
fish, and found her CREW TO consist of four men,
a parently Americans, one of whom Who'll
seemed TO act AS captain or commando, ished
the said Robert an Richard to put til, m onl
shore " th their trunks, declaring an ntentlonl
/ of abandon ng the vessel, and offered the saidl
Robert ard Richard live thousand dollars tol
perform that service, which they ahogethe
declined, and refused to do---that the SAID k1
bert and R,cha'd then got the Pitt Boat
under way for Cape May, and the said schooner
igo, also under way, and stood after them III
rectly iii her wake---tha, the Pilot Boa, above
mentioned came 10 anchor at the po.n' { IN
Cape inside, and the schooner did the same,
iwithin about two hundred yards h CHER up the
Ipay--,liat the SAID Robyrt II. howard and
Richard Behee went on board the said schooner
in the Skiit, 10 demand payment Tor pilotna
them, as they had done by their pursuing TIL,
track Of the said PHO, boat, to the anchorage
within csre May--that upon reaching The
schooner, the captain, or person IN command
offered sixty dollars for the okl, which they
refused on any terms to sell; and also refused
as requested by the said captain, to row in the
sad SIKH to one or any of certain Fishing
lsnacks which were laying at anchor at no grea
ldstance from the SAID schooner to ask them
ITO take on board the crew of the sad schoone !
lOle OF tie sand crew aud the said capt ain. there
lup u rook tins SAID i Il and rowsd 10 fshn 8
lsnack wh&ch LAY at anchor fur o. live hu.
ldred ards above the said schooner and inrne
ldiately returning told Their coinr.des that the
III hing smack would take them and then trunks
for twen,, dollars each the 81 d crew then
lrut into the skh five trunks, ara three of hen
Proved oft TO the fishing srGaek where one OF
them renamed with the trunks and the other
Two retirnedin the s.,if to the schooner, and
there collecting some other small articles, oe
claret their inien ion OF scu,tlng the schoons~
from which they were Ont, prevented b. tte
per uasion Of the sad Richard Bebee--that
lafler putting the las, mentioned articles into
ithe skiti, The three men now remaining of
the crew. on board the schooner, got on
board. the sh Fl, and declaring that after she
lhad answered their purpose, they would TURF
Iher adrit, notwithstanding the rsm. rance
let the said Robert Fl. Howard and nichard
iiebee --the said Richard Bebee as she was
Ipnshiile of jumped on board, determined to
Incuf the hazard at saving the saiH-that thrte
i \ tht crew. Orchard Bebee pers sting III re
leaning in the SIXTY rowcd the SAID skiT to the
Ihshnls sr.ack, where, taking out what they had
lput INTO hen, and leaving her themselves theJ
urned her adrif that the said Richard Behee
Isucccedcd III reganng The sad schooner, shou
- O'Clock y NJ which wa, now entirely ann
idoned and de, elicr BY the said crew, no pei ,o,s
NOV b. ng on boa'd bur the said Rob+r,
Howard, ard the said Richard Bebee, and TIT,
'lbenS No name on The Schooner, ucr papc
ln' ANY thing TO lead even 10 supposi;ion 81.
the true character Of the vessel or hP, ie.
t'wners--,hat the appearance of the weath,
being hen very unpromsing, and hui Two ind
'IvNlubs left to work the said PHO; beat, ard
htempt the difficult task OF saving the sau.
tlchard Bebee renewed tor greater safety son
ARTICLES, to wit: Dry Goods, from the schoone
. the Pllos b. at and about 4 o'ooc., A Nj !,
llJay the llth inst. the w.ad L N Z. aru
zllng. get under way for iewestown Grrei
I. here The! arrived about 7o'clocs the Same ga
md leaving person employed for tina, purp04
:" overse' HE vessels, they proceeded to intun
| ne Inspector at I.ewes Of tie whole ,ransac1o.
| LOUIS Nesi, the sad Inspector. ADVISED putin
.Iek the articles they had removed, into I.
ehooner, sfom the pilcI Beat, which was don,
md remained on beard the schooner Until 81,
as AIKEN up TO cwes--when by the tonsentot
nc Inspector, the cargo was uniaGen and s,oYed
IN the house CT Thomas Howarn. where it re
named Until Sunday the 20,h INST wl.er al III
tgtquest OF the Collector Of Delaware nisisic.
he sa Robert II, How arg and Rcharc Hebee
put fine sad cargo on b7att the sad sohoone,
laid together with i.rus West, the ah,yrme
I aned inspector, proceeded in her on Thu, da.
he 24ih INST. up the river, and reached th nor
# New CaS'le the same day ahou dusk whert
the sad 'ch" rer& cargola,len therein now lies
4 NOW ~, Sn,vch as the said schooner and
| AZ ntng Upon the high seas, and within the
Nc sn1 eAc' usive admiralty and maritime 10.
lt'aict'on, we're u'erY and entirely deserted and
hanuchtd, and SO came and we're IN the nos
'Fsian OF the sa.d Robert T. Howad s. Richard
heoee as derchct; ma, II ptsase your hon"r
'' arler she SAID schooner and Cargo 10 be a.
), ached anH taken by the process of this Fl onor.
It ule Court; and that 7iOniti0n issue 10 al,
4 ersonS concerned, to show cause, If any The,
nave, Why the said schooner and cargo should
al of be dtcrsed to The bellans A. dere lict On ,h
a nigh seas, anu masnu,h as the said echoouer &.
," ea'g bn tar these lbeliants would have been
!, hhevisahl! lost : also to shew cause if an, they
/. have, why reasonabe salvage should not BE-
deereed thereon, 10 the Iibellan,s, and that such
iu'ther and other steps shall 81 taken as the
course Of this honorable Court shall require.
!. Robert III. Howard,