Thank you for visiting SNEWPapers!
Sign up free
Domestic News
September 10, 1823
Massachusetts Spy And Worcester Advertiser
Worcester, Worcester County, Massachusetts
What is this article about?
Baltimore report refutes rumors of sickness, deaths, and destruction at Mesurado colony. Capt. George C. Thompson confirms colonists are well, supplied, and happy; only two deaths from imprudence; fort intact as of July 23.
Clipping
OCR Quality
98%
Excellent
Full Text
BALTIMORE, SEPTEMBER 2.
News from Mesurado.—We are very happy to have it in our power to convince our Boston friends, that the Munchausen story of the sickness, and mortality at Mesurado, and of the death of all the colonists who went over in the last packet to settle in that country, and of the destruction of the fort by an African tornado, are nothing more than poetic dreams, formed to embellish some tale of African romance. We have just conversed with Capt. George C. Thompson, of the fast sailing Liberia Packet the Fidelity, who left Cape Mesurado on the 23d of July, a month later than the Oswego at Boston. His report is "that the Colonists are all well abundantly supplied with provisions—contented, comfortable and happy. Two only of those who arrived in the last Packet had died, and those, more by their own imprudence, than from the inveteracy of the disease. The fort said to have been destroyed by a tornado, was still left standing, and Capt. Thompson walked upon its platform.—Lots were to be laid out for the settlers, which they were to cultivate, awaiting only the subsidence of the rains. This arrival brings the intelligence down to forty days."
News from Mesurado.—We are very happy to have it in our power to convince our Boston friends, that the Munchausen story of the sickness, and mortality at Mesurado, and of the death of all the colonists who went over in the last packet to settle in that country, and of the destruction of the fort by an African tornado, are nothing more than poetic dreams, formed to embellish some tale of African romance. We have just conversed with Capt. George C. Thompson, of the fast sailing Liberia Packet the Fidelity, who left Cape Mesurado on the 23d of July, a month later than the Oswego at Boston. His report is "that the Colonists are all well abundantly supplied with provisions—contented, comfortable and happy. Two only of those who arrived in the last Packet had died, and those, more by their own imprudence, than from the inveteracy of the disease. The fort said to have been destroyed by a tornado, was still left standing, and Capt. Thompson walked upon its platform.—Lots were to be laid out for the settlers, which they were to cultivate, awaiting only the subsidence of the rains. This arrival brings the intelligence down to forty days."
What sub-type of article is it?
Migration Or Settlement
What keywords are associated?
Mesurado Colony
Colonists
Liberia Packet Fidelity
African Settlement
What entities or persons were involved?
Capt. George C. Thompson
Where did it happen?
Cape Mesurado
Domestic News Details
Primary Location
Cape Mesurado
Event Date
23d Of July
Key Persons
Capt. George C. Thompson
Outcome
two colonists who arrived in the last packet had died, more by their own imprudence than from the disease.
Event Details
Colonists are all well, abundantly supplied with provisions, contented, comfortable and happy. The fort is still standing. Lots were to be laid out for the settlers to cultivate after rains subside. Intelligence down to forty days.