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The Virginia Gazette
Richmond, Williamsburg, Richmond County, Virginia
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Four men from Goshen, New York, got lost in the woods while viewing land at the Great Patent near the Delaware River headwaters; after 12 days of starvation, eating deer skin, herbs, and a horse, they spotted a house at Minisinks from a hilltop.
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We have an Account from Goshen, that on the eighteenth of last Month, four of the Inhabitants of that Place, viz. Robert Thompson, Anthony Carr, Silas Houle, and Abraham Finch, set out from thence with Design to view the Land called the Great-Patent, at the Head of Delaware River; and five Days after, in the long dark wet Weather we had at that Time, they were all lost in the Woods : They continued wandering about twelve Days almost starved; and in their Rambling met with an old Indian Hut, where they found a Piece of a raw Deer-skin, which they roasted and eat as a delicious Morsel, having nothing else for above six Days, but a few wild Herbs they pick'd up; at length growing faint, they killed one of their Horses to eat. In this Extremity, they at last perceiv'd a high Hill; to the Top of which they travelled, and from thence happily discover'd a House at the Minisinks.
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Goshen
Event Date
Eighteenth Of Last Month
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the four men survived after 12 days lost, having eaten deer skin, wild herbs, and one of their horses; they discovered a house at the minisinks.
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Four inhabitants of Goshen set out to view the Great-Patent land at the Head of Delaware River, got lost five days later in dark wet weather, wandered 12 days nearly starved, found and ate raw deer skin and herbs from an old Indian hut, killed a horse to eat, then climbed a hill and spotted a house at the Minisinks.