Fowle's New Hampshire Gazette And General Advertiser

Extract of a letter from Christchurch, January 23.

Many of the bodies of the unfortunate persons who perished on board the Halsewell continue to float on shore near this place. On Saturday the 14th, the bodies of Miss Mary Pierce and Miss Blackburne were found upon the beach, and brought to town. On the Wednesday following the remains of Miss Blackburne were interred in the church-yard, by Mrs. Mooring, of the same place, who is a friend to the family; and on Saturday the body of Miss Mary Pierce was also deposited in the church-yard, under the direction of Charles Bell, Esq. of Wick, attended by all the gentlemen and ladies of the town and neighbourhood, the pall being supported by six beautiful young ladies.—The bodies of John George Schutz, Esq. and Master Charles Webber, son of the late Admiral Webber, a youth of 13 years of age, were also taken up last week by Mr. Bill, and Mr. Hooper, of Longham, and have since been interred at their expense, with all the respect due to persons of their rank in life. To the humane attention of these gentlemen, and particularly of Mr. Bill, it is chiefly owing that the dead bodies, which were hourly cast on shore upon this coast, have been buried.