Craven County, NC - Capt. Love & Thomas Murley, 1787

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Newbern, July 19

Extract of a letter from Wilmington dated July 12, 1787

The following melancholy casualties happened this week: On Monday the
9th, a Capt. Love of this place, left town by water in the afternoon,
accompanied by Mr. Thomas Murley, merchant, a sailor and a negro.

They went in a sailing boat, Capt. Love being ready to put to sea on
an outward bound voyage. At the time he left town the weather appeared
very unfavourable and a violent thunder-storm immediately succeeded.

The boat being ballasted with stone suddenly filled and sunk. Mr. Murley,
Capt. Love and the negro were drowned; the former being encumbered with
clothing against the impending storm, and the latter having one of his
feet entangled by a rope. The sailor made the shore with great difficulty.
The bodies have been since found and interred.

Source: The Columbian Herald
        August 6, 1787

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