The New Hampshire Gazette

A particular and true account of the unfortunate Capt. William Death, of the Terrible privateer, which had 26 carriage guns, and 200 men. " On the 23d of December she engaged the Grand Alexander, from St. Domingo, bound to Nantz, a ship of 400 tons, 22 guns, and 100 men, and after a smart fight of two hours and a half, in which Capt. Death's brother and 16 of his men were killed, he took her, and put 40 hands on board. On Dec. 28, in convoying his prize (which was very valuable) to England, the Vengeance privateer, of St. Maloes, 36 guns, and 360 men, bore down upon and retook the prize ; then the Vengeance and the prize both attacked the Terrible, she being between them, and shot away her main mast with the first broadside : and after the most desperate and bloody engagement ever known for one hour and a half, in which Monsieur Bourdas the French Captain, his second, and two thirds of his crew, Capt. Death, almost all his officers, and the major part of his crew, were all killed, to the amount of near 400 on both sides : The Terrible was taken and carried to St. Maloes in a shattered, frightful, and bloody condition, having no more than 26 of the crew left alive on board, and 16 of them had lost legs or arms, and the other 10 were mostly wounded."