Gazette Of The United States, & Philadelphia Daily Advertiser

The sloop Ann, William Baxter master and owner, from Virginia to this port, loaded with 450 bushels of Oysters, 2000 Terrapins, and 3000 Staves, was lost last Saturday night, two miles below Chester, in five fathoms water. The sloop was drifting in the ice, when she was run foul of by a brig, which had parted her cable, and stove in the sloop's quarter deck, rails, stern, &c. The sloop then made fast to a schooner which lay astern of her, by which means the people saved their lives. The sloop sunk in about half an hour afterwards. By this misfortune Mr. Baxter has lost his all, as he had no insurance. It is a hard case, and will doubtless arrest the attention of the benevolent.