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The Virginia Gazette
Williamsburg, Virginia
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The sloop General Gage arrived in New-York on November 12 with four survivors from the wrecked schooner Mary Ann, which capsized in a gale off Virginia in late October. The crew survived five days on the overturned vessel before rescue; one man died shortly after.
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On Monday evening arrived the sloop General Gage, Capt. Turel, from Curacoa, who providentially was the means of preserving the lives of four men whom he took from a wreck at sea, and has brought in with him, viz. Capt. John Tucker, his mate, and two Negro men, late belonging to the schooner Mary Ann, of New-Providence, Mr. Thomas Duncomb owner. This schooner, loaded with lumber, pork, butter, and provisions, on the 17th of October sailed from Norfolk, in Virginia, bound to New-Providence, and the next day, Thursday the 18th, met with a severe gale of wind, which continued till Saturday the 20th at noon, and then abated; the day before which, as the schooner was scudding before it, she broached to, the foremast was carried away and the vessel overset. The people, five in number, two white men and three blacks, remained on her side till Sunday the 21st, when the weather being moderate, by the means of the two anchors and a purchase fixed to the stump of the foremast, they righted the vessel, and making fast two spars on the bowprit, the only part remaining above water, they continued there five days longer, till Thursday the 26th, having nothing to eat but part of a keg of butter, nor any thing to drink but what they sucked from a sail when it rained. When this misfortune happened they were in about lat. 37, 30. long. 74, 11. and notwithstanding their being almost famished, and so long in such a dreadful situation, hope never forsook them, and they were tolerably composed and cheerful, though several vessels passed them, some so near that they must needs have seen them, and yet inhumanly left them to perish.
At last, Thursday the 26th, the signal they made with their sail was seen at about five miles distance by Capt. Turel, who bore down to them, took them all on board, extremely weak and almost spent, and treated them with the greatest care and kindness, whereby they all recovered, except a Negro belonging to Mrs. Duyckinck, of Curacoa, who the night after they were taken on board, privately got to a water cask, where drinking, it is supposed, too freely, he grew seemingly distracted, and died the third day after. Nothing could be got out of the schooner which lay wholly under water.
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New York
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October 17 To October 26
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one negro man died after rescue; schooner mary ann lost with cargo; four survivors rescued.
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Schooner Mary Ann sailed from Norfolk, Virginia, on October 17, bound for New-Providence with lumber, pork, butter, and provisions. On October 18, a severe gale caused the foremast to break and the vessel to overset at lat. 37, 30. long. 74, 11. Five crew members righted it on October 21 but survived on the bowprit until October 26 with minimal food and water. Capt. Turel of sloop General Gage rescued them; one died shortly after from overdrinking water.