The New Hampshire Gazette Newspaper, February 24, 1758, Page 3

S IR o, 56 - — R S - e gaged again at Right, and foupht moft defperately tili Tw@}j&ibc ; Morning, during which Time the Frenchmen boarded him wirha- bout Ninety Men, when he took to his Clofe-Quarters, and kilied a great many ot «a¢é Frenchmen (it’s faid 30 or 40) and at lait Capt. Robinfon's People plying them with their Small Arms fo well, and their Veflel being much difabled, they thought proper to leave the Ship, leaving their Grapplings, Tomahawks, &c. on board the King of Prufiia, her Decks were covered with Bloed, Brains, and Pieces of Flefh, &c.—the Caprain of the Privateer was killed, and the Veflel funk about a Quarter of a Mile from the King of Pruffia, and every Perfon on board perifhed.—~Capt. Robinfon had 8 Men wounded, 3 of which mortally —'Tis fuppos'd this Privateer was from Cape Breton : —Two Days after Caprain Robinfon faw a Sloop and Ship, both which be tock to be Frenchmen : the Ship appeered like a Frigate.—~The Privateer’s Men threw their Dead over- board which were killed when they boarded Capt. Robinfon, except one Man.—The King of Pruffia is much damaged.” A PORTSMOUT H, February 24. : Laft Wednefday came to this. Town Mr. William Long, whe was Paffenger on board the SnowNancy, Capt. Hafties, and 1nforms, That they failed from Glalgow the 8th of Auguft, 1757, bound t0 Bofton, and continued beating the Sea till the gch of Sept. when, the Sea running Mountain high, it broke in upon inem and carried away their two Boats and a fmali Part of the Deck, they then was obiiged to cut away the Main Maft ; the Sea bregking in a fecond Time, fiove down the Deck from the Windials to the Quarter Deck ; the third Day of their Diftrefs they faw a Veflel, which revived their Spirits, but it being Fogy fhe foon difappeared ; they continued throwing over Goods for 5 or 6 Days: The fixth Day faw another Sail, which came very nigh them, Capt. Hafties hoifted his Coloars, but fhe would not {peak to him ; the eighth faw another Sail,which bore down and fpoke with them, but the Wind being very high could not get out their Boat, and Capt. Hafties could not lay to, but was always obliged to bear away before the Wind, his Veflel being no better than an open Boat ; this laft Veflel was fuppofed to be a French Frigate of 36 Guns : The thirteenth Day faw another Sail, and fpoke with her, fhe proved to be the True Patriot Privateer of Briftol, of 18 fix Pounders, and 99 Men, upon whom they called in the Nanie of God to fave their Lives, the Privateer then took them off the Wreck, and after taking out what they could, fet Fire to her. About a Fortight after they met with a French Frigate of 36 Guns, which they engaged two Hours, but Night coming on they {eparated. Capt. Randall, Commander of the True Patriot, had one Man kil- led, and 6 wounded, three of which died ; they think the French received confiderable Damage : After this Capt. Randall went into Libw™ Mr. Long failed from Lifbon in a Brig boand to Marblehead, and Yefterday fen’night was calt away on Hampton Beach, her Cargo, which was Salt, is entirely loft, but its hoped the Brig will be got off again ; the Men were al very much froze. Mr. Long alfo informs, That when he was at Litbon, the Grey- hourid Man of War brought in there a French Privateer of 12 Guns. Sailed from this Port lajl 1uefday Morning, awith a fair Wind, His Majefly's Ships the Enterprize of 40 Guns, Capt. Dookley, and the Mermaid, Capt. Innis, of 20 Guns, to convoy the three Maft Ships, viz. Capts. Granger, Penny and Peake, and fix Sail of Merchantment,bound for Great Britain. Among other Paffengers, is Sir Henry Franklin and Lady, General Windlow, and James Nevon, E/z; Collecior for this Place. We hope wow to ftand a Chance for a little frefh Meat, though the Price israifed above one third fince the Arrival of thefe Veflels. The Day hfore the Fleet fail'd, early in the ]Worning, a Man 5(/071g- ing to Ipfawich, awbo bad been prefs'd about a Week on board the Enterprize, coming in from Sea, not inclining to _jJee London *till be had paid a Vifit to bis Friends, bundled up his Cloaths, tied them on bis Head, lower'd bimfelf doavn inta the Water, [wam about half a Mile, and came afbore at the Point : Tho’ fome of the Ship’s Créw difcover’d bim at a Diflance in the Water, and purfucd him immediately could not ower- take bim, be clamber’d up the Rocks, got on the Lund, and ran from them like a lufly Fellovo, no doubt to their great Mortification, and got clear. T Mr. Fowle, Portfmonth, Feb. 15. v758. My late Misfartune is notorious, but the Circumjlances thereof are not Sfo well known as they ought to be, and bave been mifreprefented— 7 therefare pray the Fawvour of you ta injert the following jbort, but true Narrative of the Affair, awbereby you'll do Jome Juflice to unbappy though boneft Seamen, for Juch 1 pretend o De. Your's Michael Hooker. I failed Mafter of the Ship Mary from the Port of Pifcataqua the 14th of Jaruary laft, for the l{land of Antigua, with a moderate and fair Gale—by the 17th the Wind about E. N. E. blew exceflively, and {now’d exceeding faft, the Air very cold, all which continued ’uill the 18th, when the Sea was very large and boilterous ; about two in the Morning an unlucky Sea broke upon us, which carried away our Long Boat, Mofes, Carboofe, fmall Bower and Stream Aachor, and with them carried three Men over board ( which we afterwards happily recovered) and otherwife damaged the Ship very much and a'moft filled her with Water, the Wind fill blowing vehemently at E. S. E. and fnowing very falt, and knowing that we could :not be far from the Lawd, we {at cur Uourfes reefed, but the Violeacerofithe , r Gale foon forced them frum the Bolt Ropes and carried themn over ~ board: My felf and all iny People being now froze, andghe Ship having near ten Feet of Water in the Hold (tho’ both Pumps weork? ing in the beft Mannerwe could ) the Wind and Storm continuing - very fevere "ull the zoth, and then fhifting to S. S. E. our and the Ship’s Circumftances being fuch, we knew it was in vain to beat any Jonger ; and having loit ail Hope of ever arriving at Antigoa or any where eife it we left the Coalt, concluded to try (if pofiible ) to recover Pifcataqua again, and bore away accordingly. On the 21t at 2z 0’'Clock in the Afternoon, being about 9 Leagues from Cape- Atm, which was in Sight, and bore W.5. W, the Wind at N. E. his Majefty’s Ship the Mermaid, Capt. Innis Commander, happily for us (as we thought) came along fide of us and hailed us ; we an{- wered them, and gave them an Account of our diftreffed Condition, and afked, and indeed expefted Affiltance from them, but they lefc us as they found us. The next Day, being thick with Snow, the Wind blowing hard at North Eaft, we met the {aid Mermaid again ahd implored their Affitance ; they afked us if we expetted to get into Pilcataqua that Night? We an{wered no, we never expeéied to arrive at any Port without fome Affiftance from them or others ; but %nftead of affording any, they fet their Main-top-fail and left us in- feantly in our perithing Condition to the Mercy of the raging Ocean Lindeed more ‘merciful than the mercilefs Mermaid) the Wind ftill - ’bom North Eaft, and the Storm continuing, and our Ship almoft ‘full of Water, we lay at the Mercy of the Seas ’till the 23d, when, being all froze, as before mentioned, and having received no Sufte- rance but a Jittle raw Pork for five Days, and being worn out with the Fatigues of fo long, fevere and continued Storm, we were caft on Shore at a Place called Salter’s Beach, in the Town of Marfhfield, - where the Ship was ftove to Pieces, but with fome Difficulty faved fome Part of our Wearing Apparrel and Part of the Cargo, together with fome of the Ship’s T'acking, and being reduced to the laft Ex- tremity, even near unto Death, were relieved and nourifhed by the honourable and hofpitable Lapy and Family of General WinsLow, to whom we owe our moft fincere and lafting Gratitude. PorT OF PiscaTaQua, February 24. :Cleared out, Muchmore for Barbadoes, Lamphear for Africa, Ssaward, Robinfon, and Hayes for Antigua, Cofgrave and Odiorne, fort Amfterdam, Ingerfal, Greenleaf,and Coultas for Weft Indies, Bradford for Jamaica, Melhuith for Great-Britain, Mills and Blung for St. Kitts, and Froft for Bofton. S C HE M E Of the County of York LOTTERY, N 1. OR raifing zoco Dollars towards building and maintaining & F Bridge over Saco and Pefumpfcot Rivers, in faid County, agrea- ble to an A& pafls’d by the General Court pf the Province of the Maffachufetts- Bayin Fanuary, 1758. Wherein Sir William Pepperrell, Baronet, Daniel Moulton, Edaward Milliken, Jojeph Sayer, and Rifb- «worth Jordan, Eiqrs. Mefli'rs Benjamin Chadbourn, and Stephen Long- fellow, or any three of them, are appointed Managers, who are {worn to the faithful Performance of their Truft. The LoTTErRY confilts of 10,000 Tickets, at Two Dollars each, of which 2512 are Benefit Tickets of the foliowing Value. Doliars. Dollars. 1 of 1000 is 1000 2 of 500 are 1000 3 of 200 are 600 6 of 100 are 600 10 of 50 are 500 18 of 40 are 6oo 25 of 20 are 500 [{°) of 12 are 600 300 of 10 are 3000 600 of 6 are 3600 1500 of 4 are 6oco 2512 Prizes, 18000 Dollars, 2488 Blanks. ? 10000 Tickets, at Two Dollars each 20000 Dollars. To be paid out in Prizes, 18000 Dollars, Remains towards the Bridges, 2000 Dollars. This Lottery is fo well calculated, as that you’l find there are not quite three Rlanks to a Prize ; and that every Adventurer ftands 2512 Chances in 10000 of doubling his Money at leaft, and one of drawing a 10co Dollars, befides feveral of 500, 200, &c. &¢. But this is not all, The Work to be effefted by this Lottery, will be fo éxtenfively ufeful and beneficial to the Publick, that all Weli- Withers to the fame, who duly confider it, will become ready Ad- venturers. And tho’ they fhould chance to draw a Blank, will think their Money well laid out. As foon as the Tickets are {old, which wili be for Gold as well as Silver, and paid off fo, Notice will be given in the Publick Prints of the Time and Place of Drawing, and a Lift of the Prizes publifh’d and paid off in thirty Days after. Thofe not demanded in fix Months after Drawing will be deem’d generoufly given for building and maiotaining the Bridges. It is hoped the Advesturers will be fo fpeedy in purchafing the Tickets, as that the Managers will be able to draw by the Beginning of May next at fartheft. ¢ Tickets to be parchas’d of the Managers,