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Land was secured on Mckown's Point at its northeastern extremity and work commenced in 1903. The contract for building the main hatchery was awarded to Charles E. Carlisle, Boothbay Harbor, while the pumping station and auxiliary buildings were erected under the supervision of Government officials. . The work was completed in 1904 and placed under the supervision of Capt. Everett E. Hahn. Cod as well as lobsters are hatched here. At the close of the season for 1905, which period since getting the plant under way represents but preliminary work, nearly 150,000,000 eggs have been obtained from seed lobsters and ninety-three per cent. of them have been hatched; while about 80,000,000 cod eggs have been obtained, of which seventy per cent. were hatched. During the season for hatching employment is given to about twenty men. The steam yacht Carita has been chartered by the Government to run in connection with the hatchery in obtain- ing eggs and distributing fry at suitable places along shore.
While omissions may occur it has been the author's desire to present as fully as possible, within a limited space, the story of the Boothbay fisheries. To that end those who are now most active in the various branches of that business and have the largest present interests, as well as the old men, who, in some instances, were on the stage of action more than fifty years ago, have all been interviewed and the substance of what has been obtained from them incorporated in these pages. It may be safely stated that of the varied interests upon which the people of this locality have depended, since 1819, that of the fisheries, taken as a whole, has been far the most important.
It has been a hazardous business as affecting both life and property. From the foregoing the reader may be able to form some conclusion as to its financial ups and downs. In the fol- lowing chapter is presented, in an abridged form, only a part of the disasters that have occurred in our history. Many have failed to come to the notice of the author, but enough appears to illustrate the dangers of the deep and to indicate the many broken homes consequent upon a seagoing life.
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1624. The earliest loss of life by accident or disaster in this locality, of which record is found, was the wreck of a fish- ing vessel from Plymouth Colony at Damariscove. The cap- tain and one man were lost; the vessel was raised by the use of casks, floated and repaired.
1739. The first murder in town (except such as may have occurred by Indians) was that of the killing of David Bryant by Edmond Brown in August. They were both settlers under Dunbar. Brown married Bryant's daughter. Bryant took up the land on the easterly slope of Pisgah, erecting his house about halfway from the top to the outlet of Echo Lake, north of the present road, nearly opposite to the house of Merritt Grover. Brown took up and built upon the land just east of the outlet and the old road leading toward the Leishman place. He kept the place as an inn. Being a blacksmith by trade he exchanged places with Bryant and after exchanging built a shop near his house. It is evident that liquor was kept at the inn and the supply was obtained from Pemaquid. Together they went there the day before the tragedy and brought home a quantity. The day of the murder Brown went down to Bryant's to get a firebrand to start a fire in his forge. As the story has come down, they were both under the influence of liquor and a quarrel commenced over some real or fancied grievance of one or the other in relation to the exchange of property then recently made. Brown struck Bryant with an ax, splitting his head open. The murder occurred in the main room of the house. Bryant was buried on what became the Allen Lewis place, near the Albion Foster house. Brown made no attempt to escape. The officers to the westward were sent for and while he, at his home, awaited their coming he sent for John Beath, John McFarland and others of his neigh- bors to come and see him. When all were arrived he gave them in trust a part of his real estate to be held for the use of the "first settled minister." It was so held and, by depositions recorded in the Lincoln County Registry, founded the title to the land where the first parsonage was built for Mr. Murray. John Beath's deposition tells us that Brown never returned but died in "gaol." It is thought he left a wife and children in Townsend.
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1764. Robert, Jr., and James Montgomery, sons of Rob- ert and Sarah Montgomery, lost at sea during the year. They left wives, but it is thought no children; their estates were probated in September.
1777. Samuel, son of Robert and Martha Wylie, lost April 2, from the armed brig Tyranniside, homeward bound from the West Indies.
1784. Samuel, Jr., son of Samuel and Sarah Adams, drowned in Adams Pond, aged 17.
1789. Andrew, son of Samuel and Sarah Adams, lost at sea, aged 22.
1798. Capt. William Reed, drowned in early part of year by capsizing of his boat just off Mckown's Point, aged 48.
1801. William, son of Samuel and Sarah Adams, lost at sea, aged 32.
1804. February 11, Jotham, son of John Grimes, drowned near Ocean Point.
1810. June 4, Thomas, son of Adam and Martha Boyd, lost at sea, aged 18.
1811. Samuel, son of Alexander Wylie, killed by light- ning June 6, aged 20. - At Damariscotta, June 11, Samuel Smith, of the United States Garrison there, and his wife, who was Sally Adams, of Boothbay, both drowned in the river near the village.
1812-14. Joseph Grover, killed by British; see Chapter XIV. - July 14, 1812, Mary, daughter of Edmund Wilson, drowned in the harbor, aged 18 months.
1814. Late in January or early in February, George Kalloch and Thomas Boyd, killed at Plattsburgh Bay, under Commodore McDonough ; see Chapter XIV. - On August 14, Esther, daughter of Michael Campbell, aged 13, drowned at Damariscotta Mills.
1815. Benjamin, son of Nicholas Barter, drowned June 13, aged 16.
1816. May, John, son of Major John McKown, drowned, aged 11.
1820. May 22, John, son of Samuel and Sarah McCobb, lost at sea, aged 20. - August 23, Amos, son of Joseph and Susanna Carlisle, lost at sea, aged 28.
1821. John, aged 26, and William, aged 23, sons of Nicholas T. Knight, lost at sea. - July 7, Thomas L. Nelson, drowned. - October 15, Samuel Loomis, drowned.
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1823. March 27, John Horn, drowned.
1825. February 12, Paul, son of Robert Reed, 3d, lost at sea, aged 22.
1829. October, Jonathan Preble, aged 31, lost at sca.
1830. Alfred, son of Nicholas T. and Rachel Knight, lost at sea, aged 30.
1831. January, David, son of Robert Wylie, 4th, lost at sea, aged 22. - February 25, Benjamin P., son of David and Sarah Reed, drowned, aged 17.
1833. August 12, in Bay St. Lawrence, the fishing schooner Rising States, fitted and owned by Smith Brothers, West Har- bor, was lost with all on board. They were: Patrick, son of William McKown, aged 27, who married Elizabeth Wylie the previous year ; Jacob, son of Paul Reed, 2d, aged 11; Isaiah, son of John M. Reed, aged 15; Joseph McCobb (perhaps the son of James and Sarah) ; Lovell Hodgdon, who left a widow and three children ; John, son of Major John McKown, aged 18.
1836. Sewall, son of Benjamin Wheeler, aged 25, lost at sea. - Andrew, aged 25, son of Jonathan Hutchings, lost at sea. - July 21, William, son of Alexander Wylie, thought to have been unmarried, aged 52, together with Joseph A., son of Samuel and Betsey Davis, drowned near home.
1838. January 15, Warren, son of John Swett, aged 25, together with Phineas Kimball and another by name of Cas- well, all residents of Boothbay, drowned at the mouth of the Damariscotta by capsizing of the herring schooner Florida. - July 1, John K., son of Isaac and Martha Kelley, drowned, aged 19.
1839. Near the last of September the fishing schooner Atlantic disappeared. At the time a severe storm passed over Bay Chaleur, while one of moderate intensity prevailed here. Capt. Merrill, son of John and Sarah Hodgdon, was master; while the crew were: John, son of Nicholas T. and Sarah Knight ; Jonathan, son of Capt. John Reed, of Indiantown ; James, Jr., son of James Adams : Ephraim, son of William Durant ; Harvey, son of Israel Holton; Samuel M., son of Joseph and Frances Thompson, and Nathan H. Nason. A strange instance is related by Mrs. Rosanna Campbell, a daugh- ter of William Durant, who, as a child, distinctly remembers the incident. Breakfast was about ready at the Durant home when their neighbor, Nicholas T. Knight, called in. Tears were trickling down his face and he was nearly overcome with emotion. His first words were : " Williams, we have lost our
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boys ; they went down in last night's storm. I am sure of it. I saw it in a dream as plain as I could have seen it in reality." The storm here had been so slight that no one anticipated any (langer to the fleet in Chaleur. But it was generally supposed after their disappearance that this storm, which was learned to have been severe to the eastward, was the fatal one. Nearly twenty years after, while John M., brother to Capt. Merrill Hodgdon, was on a fishing trip and while at Wolf Head, one of the North Madeleine Islands, he became acquainted with a resident, who told him of a wreck, twenty years before, which occurred there. He mentioned the names of some of the crew and Capt. John at onee recognized them as his long-lost rela- tives and friends. They had gone ashore on the suspected night, beneath an overhanging cliff with two treacherous arms, one on either side. One hundred feet either way would have saved them. When this party saw the wreck, the day follow- ing its occurrence, no vestige of the crew, exeept a few articles of clothing, was to be seen, and a number of French and Indian natives were taking out the fish still remaining in the hull of the wreck.
1840. November 30, Charles H., aged 18, and John, aged 15, sons of Henry and Mary Gray, lost at sea. - December, John, son of John and Susan Gove, lost at sea, aged 22 .- Thomas Williams lost at sea within the year.
1841. October 4, Joel T., son of Jeremiah, Jr., and Sarah S. Beath, aged 30, lost at sea. His widow, Mary Sales, daugh- ter of James Adams, afterward married Augustus Whittaker. - October, William Preble, lost at sea. - October, Richard, son of Samuel, Jr., and Mary Adams, lost at sea, aged 49, leaving a widow, who was Elizabeth Grover, and nine children.
1842. April 19, John, son of Paul and Jane McCobb, washed overboard and drowned. - October 4, William Clark, living north of Adams Pond, lost at sea, aged 57, leaving widow and children. - November 8, Thomas M., son of David and Sarah Recd, aged 19, and Reuben P., son of John and Mary Alley, aged 13, lost at sea .- November 14, Benjamin, son of William and Mercy Carlisle, aged 24, drowned at Maryland.
1844. July 7, Samuel Barter, 2d, lost at sea. - October, Benjamin P., son of David and Sintha Adams, aged 21 .- December 11, Willard, son of Nathaniel and Elizabeth Mont- gomery, lost at sea, aged 24. - December, Artemas, aged 35, and Ichabod, aged 32, sons of John and Lydia Tibbetts. Artemas left a widow and eight children ; two sons among the number were lost at sea seven years later .- In that year Joseph,
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son of James Campbell, aged 24, was drowned on the coast of Sumatra, and John Q. A., son of William and Peggy Kennedy, was drowned in the harbor, off Spruce Point.
1845. Martin V., son of David and Sarah Lewis, lost at sea, aged 11.
1846. July 10, Elihu Bryer, Jr., drowned near the shore at Carlisle's Point, aged 46. - November 23, Amos, son of Henry and Miriam Reed, lost at sea, aged 22.
1848. March 31, Rufus Sargent, lost at sea, aged 12. - July 2, John Tibbetts, Linekin, aged 73, thrown from a car- riage on way to attend court at Wiscasset and neck broken. - July 4, Marston, son of John and Sarah Hodgdon, aged 22; Samuel M., son of Joseph and Frances Thompson, aged 24, and John Harrington, washed overboard by a heavy sea, from a fishing schooner, near Cape North. - November 19, Marshall S., son of Matthew and Sally Reed, lost off Hatteras.
1849. March 26. Capt. Abraham Mussenden, a creole from the West Indies, settled in Boothbay about 1845. He was a thrifty person and owned half of the schooner Pearl. On Friday, March 25, he and his crew, consisting of Thomas, son of Jonathan and Mary Hutchings ; George, aged 25, and Will- iam F., aged 15, sons of William and Mary McCobb; Rufus, son of Samuel and Polly Brewer, aged 13 ; William F. Brewer, brother to Rufus, and James Adams, a passenger, sailed to Portland to fit for a trip to the Western Banks. Early Sat- urday evening they started home. When off Seguin they encountered ice cakes from the mouth of the Kennebec, driven before a stiff northwest breeze. Some they avoided, but at last struck one which broke in the wood ends, though at first they were not aware of the extent of the damage. They started the pumps and as the water was making upon them rapidly others commenced to bail with tubs. Some wanted to beach the schooner on Popham, which might have been done, but the captain would not listen to the plan, as it would have been cer- tain loss of vessel and cargo. They soon saw they must aban- don her, however, and launched a skiff. All got into it, but when the last one did it began to take water, so all but William F. Brewer and Adams went back aboard the schooner. The two had just pushed clear when the schooner went down with all the rest. There were no rowlocks on the skiff, but Adams cut two holes through the laps, put in a becket and rowed to keep head to the sea. They hoped to make Damariscove, but were twelve miles to leeward when morning broke. The wind blew a gale from the northwest and they were continually in danger of filling, but before noon were picked up by schooner
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Metallic, Lubec for Boston, landed at the latter place and Tuesday, following, reached home .- During the year Thomas, son of John and Abigail Roberts, was lost at sea.
184 -. During the forties Nathaniel Knight, born 1808, was drowned at Eastport ; left a family. Also Samuel, Jr., son of Samuel and Elizabeth Giles, who settled on the Mississippi, was lost on a West India voyage ; he also left a family.
1850. Jackson, son of Capt. John Reed, Indiantown, lost at sea .- September 26, Edward H., son of Thomas and Emma Pinkham, lost at sea, aged 16.
1851. For fatalities to our town that year has eclipsed all others, and its disasters were severely felt by Gloucester and all other towns engaged in a similar business. February 10, James, son of Jason and Jane Fuller, lost at sea, aged 18. - April, the fishing schooner Grampus, owned by E. & E. Hol- brook, lost with all on board. They were Capt. William, son of Ezekiel Holbrook, aged 27; Augustus, son of James Auld, aged 48, and his son, Elup Faxon, aged 17; William G., aged 22, and Ambrose C., aged 19, sons of Ansel and Mina Farn- ham. The storm in which they were supposed to have been lost occurred a few days after they started for the Banks. --- Also in April, and probably in the same storm, was the loss of the Forrester, with all on board, owned by Capt. Allen Lewis. The lost were: Parker Wylie, master, aged 31; Alvin Sar- gent ; Thomas B., son of William and Catherine Farmer, aged 28 ; William F., son of John, 2d, and Eunice Lewis, aged 27; James O., son of James and Abigail Linekin, aged 18; John Lyon ; Daniel, aged 13, and John, aged 17, sons of Artemas and Sarah Tibbetts. - In October, at Prince Edward's Island, the C. G. Matthews with all on board, numbering thirteen, all Boothbay residents : James, son of John Love, aged 26 ; John Ellenwood, son of John Lewis, 2d, aged 29; Charles A., son of Alfred Hodgdon, aged 20; Marshall, son of Allen Lewis, aged 19 ; Albion L., son of Andrew Farmer, aged 16 ; Charles E., son of Luther Weld, aged 22; James R., son of John Weymouth, aged 21; Henry, son of Arber Marson, aged 21; Andrew Farmer; Edward, son of Alfred Matthews, aged 21; James, son of Jason Fuller, aged 18; Charles, son of Richard Adams, aged 26; Capt. Joseph P. Harris, master, aged 33. The Matthews was owned and fitted by Paul and Joseph P. Harris. Captain Harris left a widow and three children. This crew, for the most part, had engaged to go that year in the C. G. Reed, but she capsized at the "rolling" when launched, which frightened them from shipping in her and they went in the Matthews instead. The Reed was afterward fitted and was
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in the vicinity of the Matthews through the same great storm, but rode it out with safety. A monument to this captain and crew was erected, properly inscribed, in the Wylie cemetery, by Samuel Donnell. - June 2, Samuel, Jr., son of Samuel and Lydia Sawyer, lost at sea, aged 23. - In the summer, the schooner Stephen C. Phillips, Freeman Orne, master, was lost on the way home from the banks, but no loss of life. - In October, schooner Burnham, owned by John Cameron, his son Daniel, master, lost in Bay Chaleur, crew saved.
1852. July 27, Stephen, son of Jeremiah and Ellice Blake, lost at sea, aged 24. - August 5, Michael C. Webber, aged 21, lost at sea. - October, Charles Adams, lost at sea. - November, Harry Barter, his son and William Beaton, West- port, were capsized and drowned between Hockomock and Westport Upper Landing. The accident was seen by Timothy Hodgdon, who was in the locality. He made rapidly for them and picked up Barter and Beaton, dead, but still afloat, bent over an oar. The body of the boy was not recovered.
1853. March 7, William Lewis, lost at sea. - December 24, Robert Osborne, lost at sca from brig Rainbow. - Decem- ber 29, Stillman B. Matthews, aged 29, and his wife, Arabella, aged 27, drowned at Wellfleet Bar, Mass., in the great gale that then occurred.
1854. January 12, Alexander, son of John and Nancy Linekin, lost at sea, aged 28. - July, Daniel Rose, lost at sea, leaving widow and two children.
1855. April 14, Stephen Webster, lost at sea, aged 48 ; left widow and children. - George M., son of Joseph C. Auld, lost at sea, agcd 14.
1856. March 14, Merrill, son of Nathan and Hannah Day, killed by accidental discharge of gun, aged 16. - Deccm- ber, Allen, aged 36, and Granville, aged 24, sons of Tyler and Jerusha Hodgdon, lost at sea. - December, Samuel Tibbetts, lost at sea.
1857. September 15, the schooner W. F. Tarbox, Capt. Ebenezer Lundy, was lost in Bay St. Lawrence with all on board. Captain Lundy was 31, left family ; Paul, aged 28, and Charles C., aged 18, sons of Franklin and Elizabeth C. Jones, Southport ; Joseph Preble and - Westman, both of Cape Newagen. They were thought to have been run down and sunk as there had been no storm ; vessel was owned by Samuel Pierce.
1858. March 22, Westbrook P., son of William and Olive Hodgdon, lost at sea, aged 21. - May 31, William H., son of
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Willard and Mary Holton, aged 16, drowned just off McFar- land's Point. In company with his brother, W. R., and Charles Emerson they were coming in with a load of mackerel on a punt, which they had gathered at Harbor Island. It foundered from overloading. His companions reached shore in an exhausted condition. - October 1, James D., son of William and Olive Hodgdon, lost at sea, aged 16.
1859. January, John Rackliff, lost at sea .- April 5, Isaac Furbush, drowned near home. - Robert, son of Joseph Mad- docks, in schooner E. S. Pendleton, 120 tons, loaded with oats, dressed hogs and geese, left Georgetown, P. E. I., for home in November. No tidings were ever had of them after sailing. His mate was William Brown, Southport. Crew : Simon Bushee, Bath ; Stephen Kehail, Westport ; Crossman Timmons, Bowdoinham.
1860. During the year Benjamin, son of Waterman McClintock, lost in fishing schooner Foaming Billou, aged 21. - Franklin L., son of James and Hepsibeth Pinkham, fell from aloft in New York Harbor and was killed, aged 20.
1861. July, David L., son of John and Adeline Wylie, lost at sea, aged 19.
1862. February, William, son of John and Elizabeth Weymouth, lost at sea, aged 26; left widow and children. - March 7, Daniel, Jr., son of Daniel Bennett, bound from Port- land to Havana, wrecked by a waterspout, aged 26. - August, Charles Brown, Southport, son of the Brown who was lost with Robert Maddocks, drowned near Green Island by capsizing of boat, aged 22. - December 29, William B. Tibbetts, from wounds received at battle of Fredericksburg .- August, Albert B., son of Samuel McClintock, was killed by the blowing up of a gunboat in the United States Navy, aged 22.
1863. Samuel Miller Reed, lost in a bark built in Calais, of which he was master; was never heard from after sailing .- July 2, George P. Fogler, killed in battle. - July 3, James A. Knight, aged 19, killed at battle of Gettysburg .- July 4, Lieut. Charles S. McCobb, killed at the battle of Gettysburg, aged 26 .- October 17, John Hilton, died from starvation at Ander- sonville .- November 3, Benton, son of David and Sarah Lewis, lost at sea, aged 22. - November, Jason, son of Waterman McClintock, aged 18, lost overboard from schooner American Eagle, fishing for Cyrus Mckown.
1864. March 14, on George's, the Gloucester fishing schooner John G. Dennis, with ten men, four of whom were from Southport : Capt. Andrew D. Bartlett, his brother, Joel
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W. Bartlett, William F. Dunton and Franklin Towle. - May 14, Thomas Z. Tibbetts, killed at the battle of Drury's Bluff .- June 6, Weld, son of Stephen Sargent, died from wounds received in battle. - October 27, Levi Wylie, killed at battle of Pleasant Hill, aged 21. - Robert, Jr., son of Robert Mont- gomery, lost at sea, aged 50.
1865. January, John M. Sawyer, lost at sca ; left widow and children. - George G., son of Capt. William S. Emerson, lost at sea, aged 20. - October, John Martin, drowned while on a trading trip on the Kennebec. His remains were not found until the following spring.
1867. April 29, John, son of Rufus Tibbetts, lost at sea, aged 21. - May 20, Julius Kinchelow, a native of Virginia, drowned with his boat's crew, engaged in the United States Coast Survey, at Tillemook Bar, Ore. He married Nancy J., daughter of Benjamin Recd. His age was 36. - August 30, Reuben P. Jones, East Boothbay, with his daughters, Laura E., aged 16, and Martha E., aged 14, was drowned just below the Narrows near that village, by capsizing of a sailboat.
1868. March 6, Capt. John Wylie, killed at sea by the falling of a mast ; left widow, son and daughter.
1869. January, Randall Mclellan, in schooner Forrest Belle, on the Grand Banks, fishing from Gloucester with twelve men. , It was her first voyage; all lost. He left a widow and children. - February 26, Hiram Marr, Southport, aged 55, drowned by dory capsizing between Five Islands and his home. - February 28, William Gardner, Southport, fishing from Gloucester in schooner Sophronia. - May, the schooner Nellie Short, on a trip to the Banks, lost with all on board : Samuel, son of James and Rachel McDougall, aged 29 ; Cyrus B. Hagan, aged 26 ; Abiah Vanhorn, aged 30; his brother, Roland Van- horn, aged 33; Albert and Nelson Vanhorn, brothers, and cousins of the preceding .- July 4, Fynette, daughter of William and Martha Greenleaf, aged 15, drowned near home. - July 5, Fred, son of Rufus Caswell, drowned, aged 11.
1870. January 3, William J., son of John Lyon, aged 29 ; Romanzo F., aged 26, son of Benjamin Orchard, and Jeremiah Quimby, drowned at Small Point. Their schooner went ashore and they took to their dory which capsized and they were all found on the beach in the mor ing. Capt. Moses Rowe brought the remains of all three to , bothbay and their funerals were held together at the Baptist Cl urch at the Ce .er. - April, John Bryer, Jr., lost at sea. - D ring the year Moses Pierce, aged about 50, was drowned at San Francisco. - Albert S. Dyer,
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Southport, fell from aloft on the Constellation in the harbor of Naples and was instantly killed.
1872. February 18, Lester, son of John M. and Caroline Hodgdon, lost on a voyage from New York to Demerara, with Captain Greenleaf and crew from Wiscasset. The vessel dis- appeared during a severe storm on that date, all being lost. He left a widow and son, Lester E. Hodgdon.
1875. July 14, Alvah L., son of George F. Hodgdon, lost at sea, aged 17.
1878. July 25, Laura Linscott, aged 16, daughter of Mrs. Willard H. Adams by a former marriage, and Addie, daughter of Stephen E. Welch, aged 16, were drowned in Adams Pond. Together with Albert Spring, Bradford and Celia Reed, all younger than themselves, they took a float and went out to gather pond lilies. An oar was dropped and Miss Welch reaching for it caused the boat to take water ; suddenly leaning to the other side it capsized. All but Miss Linscott obtained a hold upon the boat. After being in the water about half an hour they were rescued by George Dunton, Edward Page and Llewellyn Wylie, returning from their work at the Knicker- bocker Ice Works. Miss Weleh was taken from the water alive but insensible and lived but a short time. Miss Linscott's body was found in about twenty feet of water. The others, though in a state of exhaustion, recovered .- August 18, Frank Decker, Southport, was drowned near Squirrel Island by cap- sizing his boat in a squall .- On September 27, schooner Annie Freeman, Capt. Charles W. Reed ; Harry Apps, mate ; D. C. Tibbetts and Frank Scott, all of Boothbay, with J. C. Ewing, Charleston, S. C., and George N. Smith, Wiscasst, from Baracoa to Charleston with fruit, and were never heard from after sailing. - December 21, the St. John schooner Charlie Bell, Capt. William Knox, New York to St. John, went ashore on Thumbcap Ledge. Capt. Knox, David Knox, mate, James Whitten and another sailor were drowned. Charles Kimball was washed ashore and sustained himself until the next after- noon, when he was rescured by Capt. Harvey Oliver.
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