The New Hampshire Gazette

We hear from Marblehead, that John Caswall, Master of a Fishing-Schooner belonging to that Place, brought in there last Monday, a Boat, which he took up the Friday before on Brown's Bank: In the Boat was one Man alive, and two or three dead Bodies: They took the live Man on board the Schooner; who after being refreshed, and gaining little Strength, informed them, that he belonged to a Brigantine, Arthur Cathern, Master, from New-York, bound to Antigua, with Flour, Bread, &c. but four Days after they left Port the Brig sprang a Leak, and the Water came in so fast, the People, consisting of the Master and 17 Men, had but just Time to get into the Boat, without any Provisions: A few Days after they saw a Sloop, and made Signals, but were not discerned by her: Being without Sustenance several of them soon died, which were thrown overboard by the others, till at length they all died but this Man, whose Name is Thomas Purnall, the two last who died was Captain and Boy, but Purnall being very weak, he was not able to throw them over. It was 23 Days from the Brig's foundering to the Time the Fisherman met with the Boat.---What the poor People subsisted on, if it can be called Subsistence, was the Barnacles and Stuff which gathered on the outside of the Boat.

The young Man since he has gathered more Strength says the Brig was bound to Louisbourg and the River.