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The New Hampshire Gazette And General Advertiser
Portsmouth, Exeter, Rockingham County, New Hampshire
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On a voyage from Jamaica to Curacao, the schooner Providence was attacked by armed savages at Bay Sunday on the Spanish main. Captain Robert Ferguson and four crewmen went ashore; two seamen were killed instantly, Ferguson mortally wounded and died aboard, and two others captured. The remaining two sailed back to Port Royal.
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By the depositions of two seamen who brought the schooner Providence (formerly commanded by Mr. Robert Ferguson) into Port Royal, it appears that the said schooner, being on a voyage from this island to that of Curacao, put into an unfrequented harbor on the Spanish main, commonly called Bay Sunday, where Capt. Ferguson with four of his hands went on shore, leaving only two men on board to take care of the vessel. Shortly after they landed they were attacked by a numerous body of Savages, well armed; who without the smallest provocation fired upon them; whereby two seamen were shot dead on the spot, and Capt. Ferguson mortally wounded, tho he made shift to escape from his murderers and got on board the schooner, but died the next day in great agony. The persons who were left on board the schooner can give no account of the other two men, but that they were separated from their companions by the Indians, and perhaps suffered a more lingering death, as they never saw them afterwards. The two deponents who were eye witnesses to this most tragical scene, without being able to afford their assistance, very much to their credit navigated the vessel back to this port.
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Bay Sunday On The Spanish Main
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two seamen shot dead; capt. ferguson mortally wounded and died the next day; two other men separated and presumed dead; schooner navigated back to port royal.
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The schooner Providence, commanded by Capt. Robert Ferguson, on voyage from Jamaica to Curacao, put into Bay Sunday. Ferguson and four hands went ashore, leaving two aboard. They were attacked by numerous armed savages without provocation; two seamen killed on spot, Ferguson wounded but escaped to vessel and died next day in agony. Other two separated by Indians, not seen again. Two deponents navigated back to port.