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Sir.---- The accompanying list contains the names of 158 men, women,
and children, exclusive of the mate and all the crew, 9 in number, who
were saved from the wreck of the Dispatch, of Workington, commanded
by the late WILLIAN LANCASTER, (drowned) which sailed from Derry, on
the 29th May for Quebec ---
The brig was wrecked on a rock, about eighteen miles to the eastward
of Cape Ray, and distant from the Main three-fourths of a mile, on the
evening of the 10th of July, and it was only by watching the occasional
fall of the surf for a few hours each day; till the following Tuesday,
that the mate and crew with two boats, and the assistance of a fisherman
in a small boas 12 feet long, saved those in the accompanying list.
The mate informs me that 200 passengers were said to be on board, though
he thinks several infants were not reckoned, as their passage was not
paid, and the crew, master included, were eleven in number.
Four men and ten children died on the rock from starvation, five children
and one woman, died on the beach, four men perished in the woods, and
one woman and one boy in the boats of this ship, whilst on their passage
from the place of shipwreck. By a comparison of numbers, it appears
that thirty-six at least were drowned; of that number two infants were
washed from their mother's breast, whilst on the rock, and of one family,
six were swept off after they obtained a footing.
I have taken
the liberty of troubling you with the list, as from your situation at
the port whence the vessel sailed, you will most propably have the readiest
means of making the same known, and thus quieting the feelings of relatives
and friends at once.
I am, Sir, your
obedient servant,
R. GRANT
To the Collector of Customs, Captain.
Londonderry.
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A list of Persons saved from the wreck of the Brig Dispatch of Workington,
William Lancaster, late Master, and conveyed from Port aux Basque, Newfoundland,
to Halifax, in his Majesty's ship Tyne:---
COUNTY OF TYRONE........John
Henderson, Skirts;---
John Scott, Ardstraw; George Boyle and James Monaghan, Kirskiddy, Edward
Sheils and James Armstrong, Drumra; Hugh Harper, Termanamongan; Michael
Sheils, James M'Gonagle, and Margaret his sister, Edward M'Gowan, Joseph
Smaley and his wife and child, John Smaley and his wife and two children,
Hamilton Parkhill and his wife, child, and sister, (brother lost) John
M'Partridge, Mary his wife and James, Archibald, John, Samuel, and Martha
their children, Mary M'Manus, all of Donagheady.
John Williamson,
Wm. Moor, Wm. M'Monagle, and C. M'Monagle his mother, Robert Gorman,
Margaret Gordon (her husband lost,) Catharine Bryan, all Leckpatrick.
Charles Cochran,
Strabane, (died on board the Tyne on the morning of the 26th of July;)
Robert Shaw and his wife and child, John Nickson and Margaret his wife,
John Bagster, Martha his mother and Thomas and James his sons, (two
sons and two sisters lost,) Thomas and William, brothers of John Bagster
George his nephew, Annie and Catharine his sisters, all of Cappagh.
Alexander Kail,
Termanamongan, and Eliza his wife.
COUNTY OF DONEGAL.--
James Gallagher; Rathmanno; James Dougherty, Turboil; Charles Porter
and James Roulston, Langfield; Hugh M'Laughlin, Dunnamore; Mathew Fulton,
Tullaghabegley; Thomas M'Clean, Ray; Alexander M'Cauley, ditto, and
Mary his wife, (one son lost;) Dennis Dougan, ditto, and Anne and Grace,
his two daughters; Jaffles Smyth, Ostragh; Samuel Spence, Tullaghaghness;
John Armstrong, Alphaninshe; David O'Hara, Urney; John O'Hara, ditto
and Mary his wife; Joseph Hart, ditto; Mary his wife, and Thomas, Margaret
and Eliza, Their children, (lost two sons;) Margaret Thompson, ditto;
Noble Kilgrace, ditto, and his wife Rachael, Alexander Aldjo, Tullybeg;
David Hamilton, ditto, Martha his sister and Robert his brother, (father;
mother,) and two sisters lost;) William Ayers, Raphoe; Mary Graham,
ditto, (her husband lost;) Rose Gallagher, ditto; Hugh Doughal, Cloaghaneely;
James Williams, Burt, and Mary his wife; John Brown, Donoughmore, and
Isabella his wife, (one son lost;) Mary M'Beth, ditto; Charles Smullen,
Tullaghabegly, and his wife and child, and William Cassidy, his step-son;
Robert Moore, Ramelton, his wife Margaret and child Sarah; Patrick Callaghan,
Conwell, and his wife Lydia; Eleanor Johnston Templecarn; Anne Duncan,
Taughboyne; Mary Mahaffy, ditto, and her two nephews, James and John
King, (her father, mother, and sister lost;) Mary M'Monagle, ditto,
and her son James, (one child lost.)
COUNTY OF LONDONDERRY.-----
John Craghan, Upper Cumber; James M'Ginnis, Aughanloo; John Hull, Baltreagh;
Robert Hull, ditto; Patrick M'Manus, Cumber; James Marshal, Glendermot;
Thomas M'Cleland, Drumachose; William M'Cleland, ditto; William White,
ditto; John M'Master, Glendermot; Martha his sister, and William his
brother; James Cerrigan, Faughanvale; Robert M'Elhenny, ditto; John
M'Mullan, Termanveny, and James his brother, (father, mother, two sisters,
nephew, and female servant lost;) George Steel, Drumachose; (his brother
lost;) Benjamin M'Kay, Macquanane; Sarah Anne Hyndman, Glendermot; James
Robinson, ditto; Biddy Mullens, Bannagher; Rose O'Neill, Cumber.
Neal M'Taggart,
Campbeltown, Argyleshire; Daniel Arnott, ditto, his wife, John, Daniel,
and David, his sons grown up, Duncan, aged 10, Andrew 1, Elizabeth grown
up, Agnes 14, Catharine 12, Jane 8, Mary 5, Martha 3; James M'Culloch,
Kill, County Cavan, his wife and child, (one son lost;) William Fazill,
Killaid, County Antrim, and Anne his wife, (one son lost.)
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