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=42758 Submitted by: Harrison H Howeth Article Title: Chester Daily Times Article Date: February 2 1881 Article Description: More Lewes Ghost Stories Article Text: Lewes, Del., "Breakwater Light" Wednesday, Feb 2 Sailors are proverbially a superstitious class of being. The 'Breakwater Light' of last Saturday gives the following blood-curdling account of the experiences of some Jack Tars on board a barque now lying at that place. The liquor served to those sailors must be particularly strong to work on their imaginations in such a fearful way. A second apparition , a ghost, or the spirit of a drowned captain makes the appearance on board the barque 'S. P. Harward' from which the captain was drowned in November last. The barque lies high up on the beach in front of the town and it was three weeks ago on a Sunday night that the sailors on board the barque were frightened near to death and scared ashore by what they declared was the ghost of the drowned captain. At the time there was no boat along side the baeque but the frightened sailors cried for help until some of our citizens were aroused and went to their rescue. The whole crew left on the first train the following morning to Philadelphia , declaring that they would never again put foot on the deck of that vessel. The matter blew over and was almost forgotten until Wednesday night, when PETER MARTIN, a stout, valiant hearted Lewes sailor, who had been watching the barque, was paralyzed with fear and had to brought ashore during the night. His story of the afa! ir is a thrilling one, and he tells it reluctantly with much earnestness. He says that about ten o'clock on Wednesday night when he was lying down in the cabin he heard something heavy drop on the deck and immediately after that the greatest confusion and the most hideous and unearthly sounds and groans began. MARTIN said he stood those ghostly demonstratios unti he felt his blood freeze and that the hair on his head was like bristles and he was forced to cry for help. As was the case of the sailors before there was no boat at the barque but his cries were heard by MR LEVT B. LYNCH, , who rowed off and brought him ashore. Mr. Lynch said that Martin was the worst scared man he had ever seen and that he even refused to be compforted and after reaching the beach and telling his story he struck out at once for his home on the bank in town. The berque is said to have always been an illfated vessel and according to tales told by her crews it is no new thing to see ghost and other apparitions on board her. ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ DE-Old-News ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ NewspaperAbstracts.com - Finding our ancestors in the news! TM http://www.NewspaperAbstracts.com