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Domestic News
August 14, 1821
The New Hampshire Gazette
Portsmouth, Rockingham County, New Hampshire
What is this article about?
Letter from Norfolk reports increasing sickness at City Point, Bermuda Hundred, and other James' River landings, affecting ships' crews with bilious illness; Captain Meader of the ship Governor Griswold died there on Tuesday night.
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Extract of a letter dated Norfolk August 2.
"It is very sickly and becoming more so, at City Point, Bermuda hundred, and the other different landing places, on James' River.—Two or three ships have lost a part of their crews already, and on Tuesday night Captain Meader of the ship Governor Griswold, of New-York, at Bermuda Hundred, paid the great debt of nature. Capt. M. belonged to Hudson. N. Y. The sickness which prevails at those places is of a bilious character, such as generally attacks ships' crews up that river, in the summer and fall seasons."
"It is very sickly and becoming more so, at City Point, Bermuda hundred, and the other different landing places, on James' River.—Two or three ships have lost a part of their crews already, and on Tuesday night Captain Meader of the ship Governor Griswold, of New-York, at Bermuda Hundred, paid the great debt of nature. Capt. M. belonged to Hudson. N. Y. The sickness which prevails at those places is of a bilious character, such as generally attacks ships' crews up that river, in the summer and fall seasons."
What sub-type of article is it?
Disease Or Epidemic
Shipping
Death Or Funeral
What keywords are associated?
James River Sickness
Bilious Fever
Ship Crews
Captain Meader
Norfolk Letter
What entities or persons were involved?
Captain Meader
Governor Griswold
Where did it happen?
City Point, Bermuda Hundred, James' River
Domestic News Details
Primary Location
City Point, Bermuda Hundred, James' River
Event Date
August 2
Key Persons
Captain Meader
Governor Griswold
Outcome
captain meader died; parts of crews on two or three ships lost
Event Details
Increasing bilious sickness at landing places on James' River affecting ships' crews in summer and fall; Captain Meader of the ship Governor Griswold from New-York died at Bermuda Hundred on Tuesday night