Great Britain
Published: 2013-09
Total Pages: 554
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1872 edition. Excerpt: ...God, deposeth and saith that he sailed from Lucoa, in the island of Jamaica, ou the 14th day of April last, bound to Baltimore iu Maryland, having a cargo of rum and sugar ou board, the said brigantine being then in good condition; that on the 7th of May, at 10 o'clock p. m., he, this deponent, being then in the i i. 1 brigantine off the mouth of Chesapeake Bay, Cape Henry then bearing by computatiou N. W. by W., distant about seven leagues, he was hailed by a schooner, and informed there was a pilot for the Chesapeake on board, to which this deponent answered that he should not stay for a pilot till the morning; that this deponent-24D hailed the schooner, and asked how Cape "Henry bore, and what distance, and was answered from the schooner that Capo Heury bore N. W. and by W. twenty miles distant; that the wind being at'N. E., deponent steered N. N. W., going at the rate of about four miles an hour, until about half past 4 o'clock, or thereabout, a. m.. ou the 8th of May, when, beiug in eight fathoms water, Cape Henry at the time bearing N. W. by VV. or N. W., distant about four or five miles, the said brigantine Fanny "as captured by the said schooner, which, to the great surprise of this deponent, provel to be a privateer, having on board a commission Baid to have been granted bv the French consul at Charleston, in South Carolina. The said privateer, called tho gaua Culottes, was commanded by J. B. A. Ferry, mounted four guns and two swivels, and manned with forty-five men; that this deponent, the officers and crew of the said brigantiue, were all put on shore on the 11th of May, in Lynnhaven Bay, in Virginia; that the said brigantine was sent to Philadelphia, whither this deponent came to claim the vessel and cargo, but the...