Brunswick County NcArchives News.....Twelve Drowned in Boat Accident August 28, 1835
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Aug. 14, 1835   Charlotte Journal August 28, 1835
   -- A shocking catastrophe occurred at Smithville, N. C., on Saturday 
afternoon, the 8th inst. A boat containing 19 persons, in passing across the 
Bay of Oak Island, was capsized, and 12 of the passengers were drowned, viz:
COL DOZIER, his wife, and seven children, an old gentleman named HANKINS, an 
only daughter of MILES POTTER, and a Negro girl. The remaining seven were 
saved by clinging to the boat, whence they were rescued by a Negro boy, who 
immediately put off in a boat for their assistance. -- Fay. Observer

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