5th June, 1693. Minute of the Provincial Council.<\/p>\n
The\u00a0Lieut. Governor and Council being informed of the arrival Emanuell Marius,\u00a0a Spaniard, deposed that being sailor aboard the brigantine,\u00a0came out from Barbados about five\u00a0weeks ago, their Company consisting of the Master, another seaman, who was pressed from them by\u00a0a man of war three\u00a0days after they came thence, Christopher Hodges and\u00a0the deponent; when they were in sight of Land, eight\u00a0leagues southward of the capes of Delaware, wind southeast, they gybed, and the\u00a0boom knock’t the Master\u00a0overboard, and\u00a0the deponent saw him in the\u00a0sea, and\u00a0immediately they cut the boat lashes and\u00a0got out after the Master\u00a0and saw the sharks bite his hat, and as they came up to him\u00a0with\u00a0the boat, he sunk. Marius\u00a0said that the Master\u00a0had no wife,\u00a0and\u00a0nothing on board but a few old clothes and instruments, and\u00a0that\u00a0he, the deponent, cannot take an observation, and knows only the\u00a0North Star. Later that month, Edward Burch petitioned that when the Master was knocked overboard and lost, to the hazard of the ship, goods and passengers, the people on board desired him to go ashore, which he did, at great hazard of his life, and agreed with a person to pilot the ship to a safe harbor for\u00a0\u00a320. After an easy and speedy passage into the Whorekills, the pilot was willing to take\u00a0\u00a310, which Burch paid him. Now Burch wanted the owner or present Master of the ship to repay him and to allow him some reasonable reward for his extraordinary service and danger. Jasper Yeats, to whom the vessel was consigned, agreed to repay the ten pounds. The Council could not help with Burch’s assertion that the passengers had promised him 40s each for his care. They told him to take his remedy at law for it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" 5th June, 1693. Minute of the Provincial Council. The\u00a0Lieut. Governor and Council being informed of the arrival of the Brigantine Ann from Barbados, and that\u00a0the Master\u00a0George Stiles\u00a0was Lost at sea, did call before them\u00a0the brigantine’s Company, and\u00a0passengers, to give an account of his death, whether it was casual, or\u00a0whether any on board was instrumental therein. … Continue reading The loss of Captain Stiles<\/span>
\nof the Brigantine Ann<\/em> from Barbados, and that\u00a0the Master\u00a0George Stiles\u00a0was Lost at sea, did call before them\u00a0the brigantine’s Company, and\u00a0passengers, to give an account of his death, whether it was casual, or\u00a0whether any on board was instrumental therein.<\/p>\n
\nChristopher Hodges deposed that this accident happened of the
\n25th day of May last, between the hours of 4 and 5\u00a0in the afternoon,
\nafter they had made land and ran to it, and\u00a0came below the Inlet, and then the\u00a0Master did bid us get ready the anchor and drop it,
\nthinking it was the Whorekill. Ned Burch, a passenger, and\u00a0shoe-
\nmaker by trade, being at the helm where the Master, as he was showing him which wind to keep, brought the\u00a0sail to gybe and\u00a0struck
\nBurch, whose head was a little above the deck in the steerage, and
\nstruck the\u00a0Master, who was standing aloft, quite overboard; and\u00a0that
\nthis deponent saw his heels turn over his head, and\u00a0so fell overboard
\nand cried to bring the vessel to, which they did, and got out the
\nboat, and\u00a0flung out a barrel, and\u00a0the passengers flung out ropes, but
\nhe could get hold of none of them; they saw him swim, and at
\nlast sunk, just as\u00a0they got to him.<\/p>\n