A new article has been added at Newspaper Abstracts > United States > Delaware > Sussex http://www.newspaperabstracts.com/index.php?action=displaycat&catid=642 Also visit our new sister sites: http://www.AncestorsOnTheWeb.com http://www.Genealogy101.com Direct link to article: http://www.newspaperabstracts.com/link.php?id=44449 Submitted by: Harrison H Howeth Article Title: The Farmers Cabinet Article Date: August 20 1831 Article Description: Mutiny and Murder off Cape Henlopen Article Text: Merchants Coffee House, Philadelphia - Aug., 20, A slip from our Philadelphia correspondent, from the Merchants Coffee House, announces, as below, the brig 'Mary' which cleared Philadelphia on the 6th last, bound for Mansanilla, Cuba. On the 11th, CAPTAIN HILBORN discharged his pilot off Cape Henlopen on the Delaware. On the same day he was murdereed by his crew. The slip reads; The circumstances as far as thety have come to our knowledge are there; The mate and one crew had taken to pilot off the boat for the purpose of landing him. As they were returning, Capt. HILBORN ordered all hands from the forecastle to get up the anchor. He made repeated calls without any answer, he then stepped into the forecastle to learn the cause when he was mortally stabbed with a large knife or knives, and died before the mate reached the brig. The cook and a young lad were in the cabiin at the time from which this statement of facts was obtained. The brig 'Elizabeth', Capt. WESTNEY , then in sight, was hailed and with the assistance of her crew the murderers were secured and landed. What led to this bloody outrage we have not been able to learn. Three of the crew were secured in Georgetown, Del., jail. ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ DE-Old-News ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ NewspaperAbstracts.com - Finding our ancestors in the news! TM http://www.NewspaperAbstracts.com