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Pomeroy, Meigs County, Ohio
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On August 11, the schooner Gloucester arrived in Boston from the Fisheries, reporting that British officers from the Devastation boarded the C. V. Rogers and other American schooners, ordered them out of the bay, mistreated their papers, and fired on one escaping vessel, wounding the helmsman.
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The Fisheries
Outcome
one man at the helm wounded
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The schooner Gloucester arrived from the Fisheries reporting that the schooner C. V. Rogers was boarded by officers of the Devastation and ordered out of the bay along with about twenty other schooners five miles from land; English officers examined and discarded their papers disdainfully; another schooner getting water was given fifteen minutes to leave; an American schooner was fired into while escaping the cutter, wounding the helmsman.