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The Providence Journal, And Town And Country Advertiser
Providence, Providence County, Rhode Island
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Slaves on the schooner Flying-Fish, en route from Guinea to Havana, revolted during a chase by the English privateer Neptune, killing Captain Robert S. Packard, his two mates, two crewmen, and ten slaves. The Neptune captured the vessel after a broadside, bringing it to New-Providence; three surviving crew were imprisoned in Philadelphia.
Merged-components note: Multiple related reports on the slave revolt aboard and capture of the schooner Flying-Fish.
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The brig Dove, captain Johnson, in 9 days from New-Providence, brought in three of the hands who lately belonged to the schooner Flying-Fish, captain Packard, of Providence, from the coast of Guinea to Havannah with slaves, having previously put into St. Thomas for hands.
On the passage, while the English brig privateer Neptune, captain Cockburn, was in chase of the Flying-Fish, all the slaves were left astern to trim the schooner, who embraced that opportunity of rising upon the crew. A conflict ensued, in which captain Packard, his two mates and two men, and ten slaves were killed.
The three others of the crew saved themselves by running up to the mast-head, and remaining there till the Neptune captured her. She was sent to New-Providence, a paper of which place contains the following article on this subject.
Nassau (N. P.) July 8.
This morning arrived the Neptune privateer, captain Cockburn, from a cruise, and brought in two Danish schooners with slaves. The negroes of one of them had risen upon the crew, murdered the captain, mates, and two men.
They had the audacity to fire into the Neptune, but after receiving two broad-sides, which killed and wounded 15 of them, they submitted.
The Neptune had two men wounded.
The schooner Flying-Fish, of this port, bound to the Havannah, with slaves, is carried into New-Providence. It is melancholy and distressing to relate, that Capt. Robert S. Packard, and all the crew except three, were killed by the slaves, who rose upon them, and took possession of the vessel, after losing ten of their number. When the privateer which took the schooner came within hail, the surviving sailors at mast-head begged them to fire a broadside into the vessel, which was immediately done; the broadside killed 13 of the slaves, and frightened the rest below, when the schooner was taken possession of, and carried in as above.
The seamen taken on board the vessel carrying slaves, were on Thursday landed at Philadelphia from the schooner Experiment, and committed to prison.
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New Providence
Event Date
July 8
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captain packard, his two mates, two men, and ten slaves killed in initial conflict; broadside from neptune killed 13 slaves and wounded 15 others; neptune had two men wounded; schooner captured and sent to new-providence; three crew survivors imprisoned in philadelphia.
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The schooner Flying-Fish, captain Packard, from Providence, carried slaves from Guinea to Havana. During chase by English privateer Neptune, captain Cockburn, slaves revolted, killing most crew. Survivors hid at mast-head; Neptune fired broadside on request, subdued slaves, captured vessel, brought to New-Providence. Three hands arrived in New-York via brig Dove.