Subject: Re: Genealogy Question...help please > Carol, I see you are still looking: This is what I mentioned earlier > but just found: The site of information: > http://204.170.102.11/scripts/webhits.exe/accessible/text/gaz2/ > the information is from the Pennsylvania Gazette, May 15, 1760, Item > #24738, > "New York, May 12. Extract of a Letter from Half Moon, dated April > 18." > > I will skip most of this letter and suggest you go to the site and > check it for any details pertaining to your ancestor.. This ship left > New York, and the whole passage was in trouble from start to finish. > He tells of their difficulties. "At three in the afternoon, we made > the Island of LUNDY, with the Wind at N.W. at six the same day we met > with a violent gale at North, attended with hail and rain, which > unfortunately forced us into Barnstable Bay; and, before we discovered > the shore, we struck the Northamburrow Sands, in the County of Devon, > and the sea run so prodigious high, and no prospect of saving the > vessel, we endeavored to get out our boats, which we at length > effected with great difficulty, when 13 of the people immediately got > into the Long boat and put off, but they were soon overset, and all > perished but one. Before I was relieved, and the three that were with > me, her bottom was gone sot that out of 230 Hogsheads of Sugar, I > believe we have saved no more than 5. MATTHEW CARTER, THOMAS CRAIG, > LEWIS WOOLCOCK, JOHN CATNESS, TIMOTHY ROACH, HUGH AND HENRY DUFF, were > drowned. They were taken up and buried in Hotham Parish Church Yard. > ROBERT WELSH, JAMES FORBES, JOHN CLARK, WILLIAM FISHER AND WILLIAM > CRONICK, were drowned also, but not found. JOHN MADOCK, ROBERT > GREEN, ---SWINEY, WITH ALEXANDER WESTMAN were saved." > > Believe this occurred during the French and Indian War, >