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The New Hampshire Gazette And Historical Chronicle
Portsmouth, Greenland, Rockingham County, New Hampshire
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On July 9 in New York, Capt. Holmes brought 10 survivors from the Dutch East India ship La Motte, which wrecked on Bona Vista Island on January 25 after sailing from Amsterdam in December with 360 men bound for Batavia. Natives plundered and attacked them, causing deaths; 60 more died of sickness at St. Jago.
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Capt. Holmes has brought in with him Ten Men, who belonged to a Dutch East-India Man, and inform, That they sailed from Amsterdam the 25th of last December, in the Ship La Motte, having 360 Men on board, commanded by John Hendrick Hinbergher, bound to Batavia, but on the 25th of January the Ship was cast away on the Island of Bona Vista; where on going ashore, the Natives stripped and plundered them of their Clothes, and used them very cruelly, so that they were obliged to seek for shelter in the Woods, where several of them were killed and wounded by the Negroes; from this Island they got to St. Jago, where 60 of the Men died of Sickness, and 10 Capt. Holmes shipped as Seamen.
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New York
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July 9 (Report); Shipwreck 25th Of January
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several killed and wounded by negroes in the woods; 60 died of sickness at st. jago; 10 shipped as seamen with capt. holmes
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Capt. Holmes brought ten men from a Dutch East-India ship La Motte that sailed from Amsterdam on December 25 with 360 men under John Hendrick Hinbergher bound for Batavia. The ship wrecked on Bona Vista Island on January 25. Natives stripped and plundered them, using them cruelly; survivors fled to woods where some were killed and wounded by Negroes. They reached St. Jago where 60 died of sickness.