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 site: http://www.Genealogy101.com Direct link to article: http://www.newspaperabstracts.com/link.php?id=43308 Submitted by: Harrison H Howeth Article Title: New Hampshire Gazette Article Date: August 25 1787 Article Description: From the World of Spirits Another Delaware Bay Ghost Story. Article Text: >From a Philadelphia Newspaper - 1787: In this age of infidelity and notice given us from the World of Spirits, when sufficiently proved to be genuine, are not to be overlooked. Two have happened here in Sussex, indisputably certain and which are much talked of at Lewes. > A certain LEVIN MILBY had gone to trade in his vessel to Carolina. Before he had time to return he died suddenly there. But a whole week before any human intelligence arrived, his brother in law, ELIAS WEST , a man of truth and credibility, though too fond of spirituous liquors, had laid himself down on a bed to rest in the evening, with a window open on May 12, 1787, from which he started up in great fright and came to the company in the next room and cried out, " LEVIN MILBY IS DEAD IN CAROLINA, for he just now laid his cold dead hand on one side of my face, I saw him leaning over the window as plainly as ever I did in my life. he looked very pale. I spoke first and said, 'Lord have mercy Levin! what is the matter? '. He answered 'Elias I am dead, I died in Carolina and have sent my son, Nate, home to his Mommy'. This depends not on his word though a man of veracity, for besides his wife and family there happened to be no less than five men, heads of families, there,! who saw his fright and heard his tail. They all tried to persuade him it was only a dream but when the news arrived eight or ten days after, they began to speak seriously of the affair. For it to be called a dream the matter is still the same, here was a true notification from the Invisible World of a fact some hundred miles distant, unsuspected and as unlikely to happen to him as any other hardy man. The same MR. ELIAS WEST had another, perhaps more remarkable visit and notification from the unseen world. As he lay in the Indian River , September 1764, in his vessel, when he saw his partner PETER WRIGHT , who had stayed behind him in Statin Island, who in like manner also laid his cold hand on his cheek and said "Elias, you need say no more to my father about the Morning Star for I am dead and shall never want it more. This makes it well for my brothers, Joshua and Anthony, but Anthony shall die in youth. N.B. The Morning Star was the name of a vessel and the dispute about the vessel thus settled by the apparition." < ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ DE-Old-News ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ NewspaperAbstracts.com - Finding our ancestors in the news! TM http://www.NewspaperAbstracts.com