Pasquotank County NcArchives News.....Piracy on the High Seas January 13, 1831
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Thurs. Jan. 13, 1831   Edenton Gazette January 13, 1831
   PIRACY -- We learn from the "Elizabeth City Star," that a vessel belonging 
to MESSRS H. N. and T. P. WILLIAMS, merchants, of that place, called 
the "Henry Clay," SEARS, Master, while on her passage homeward from Aux Cayes, 
with 130 bags of coffee, was boarded off the N.W. point of St. Domingo, by a 
piratical vessel of about 40 tons, sloop rigged, manned by six Negroes, and 
robbed. The pirate fired four muskets at the schooner and ordered the Captain 
to send his boat on board with all hands, which was done. They then confined 
them and went on board the schooner, armed with swords, pistols, etc., took 
from the captain his money ($8); 55 bags of coffee, provisions, clothing and 
square sail and left them.
   "The Star" also mentions a disaster which happened to the Schooner "Lavinia 
Scott" of that place (a new vessel) and belonging to the same gentlemen. While 
on her way to Dighton, Mass., loaded with corn, she was run into, off Sandy 
Hook, in the night by the brig "Zelia," from New York, which occasioned so 
much damage to her that it was with great difficulty that the crew could get 
into the brig, before she sunk. She is said to be a total loss.

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