Gazette Of The United States

PARTICULARS of the LOSS of the SHIP INDUSTRY and CREW.

This unfortunate vessel sailed from Portsmouth, (England) the 4th of November, 1795, in ballast, for Boston--was wrecked on Cape-Ann the 11th January, 1796--and navigated by the following crew:

Miles Barnes, master.

Edward Gilby, 1st mate.

Thomas S. Perrot, 2d mate.

Seamen,

Levi Gardiner,

Nathaniel Tucker,

Jeremiah Sawyer,

Uriah Champlin,

James Harwell,

Charles Harwell.

James Pitman, cabin-boy.

Batlis Larson, cook.

In the storm on Monday night last, the aforesaid ship, the property of Mr. Thomas Lewis, of this town, was wrecked upon Salt Island, on the N. E. part of Cape-Ann, and every life lost. The bodies of the captain, mate, and three of the hands, have since been found, and were on Thursday last interred, with that sympathy and affection which is the true characteristic of the humane and benevolent; they were carried to the meeting-house of the first parish in Gloucester, where a suitable anthem was performed, when the Rev. Eli Forbes delivered a pertinent and affecting address, and closed with a solemn and pathetic prayer to that almighty disposer of events, whose hand is inevitable and right:--their remains were then conveyed to their gloomy recesses, in the following order:

The Captain and Mate,

Supported by twelve respectable Masters of vessels

And the remaining corpses of that

Unfortunate CREW,

By their sympathising brethren in the

profession.

The vessels in the harbour with their flags half mast high, together with a threatening appearance of a similar storm to that which doomed to eternity the unfortunate victims, heightened the distress of this affecting scene.

We the subscribers being called to Gloucester on this melancholy event, were witnesses to the above narrative; but if we should be silent on the occasion, it would be ingratitude in the highest degree to the humane and benevolent citizens of that place, as the sympathetic tear was dropping from every eye, and in every face was seen real grief.

In particular, gratitude calls on us to acknowledge to the public, the christian-like humanity and goodness of the honourable selectmen of the town, together with Ignatius Sargent, Esq. and John Rogers, Notary Public, with many other gentlemen whom we cannot name, for their unwearied exertions in preserving what was possible from the wreck, and the decent interment of the unfortunate victims.

THOMAS LEWIS.

THOMAS LEWIS, jun.