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Fowle's New Hampshire Gazette And General Advertiser
Portsmouth, Rockingham County, New Hampshire
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On September 6, Mr. Tod rescued 17 weakened French sailors from a raft near New Providence island, Jamaica. Their snow bound from Cape Francois to France with sugar and coffee sank in a gale near Ackland's Key four days after departing on August 23; they endured 11 days on the raft, losing their yawl and one man to drowning.
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We hear from the island of New-Providence, that on the 6th of September a small sail, having a signal of distress was descried by Mr. Tod, from governor Moultrie's plantation, at the south side of this island. Mr. Tod immediately set off in a boat to her assistance, and found her to be a small raft made of planks and spars lashed together, on which were no fewer than seventeen men, who were all then nearly knee deep in water, and with difficulty could prevent themselves being washed away by the sea breaking over them. Mr. Tod got them all safe on shore, but they were so weak that he was under the necessity of having them carried to his house. The master and supercargo, by the help of broken English, informed Mr. Tod, that they were the crew of a French snow, bound from Cape Francois for Old France, laden with sugar and coffee: that they had left the Cape the 23d of last month; that four days after they sailed, they lost their vessel in a heavy gale, at or near Ackland's Key; that having lost their long boat, they had framed a raft, with which, and the ship's yawl, they attempted to get to some inhabited place; that they lost their yawl on the 5th day; that one of their companions was drowned on the 10th day; and that they had been 11 days on the raft, 5 of them without fresh water or provisions, when Mr. Tod picked them up.
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New Providence
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6th Of September
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one drowned; seventeen rescued
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Mr. Tod descried a distress signal from a small raft on the south side of New-Providence and rescued seventeen weakened men knee-deep in water. They were the crew of a French snow bound from Cape Francois for Old France with sugar and coffee, which sank in a heavy gale near Ackland's Key four days after departing on the 23d of last month. Having lost their long boat, they built a raft and used the ship's yawl to reach inhabited places, but lost the yawl on the 5th day and one companion drowned on the 10th day. They had been 11 days on the raft, the last 5 without fresh water or provisions.