1824 Data
Republican Compiler (Gettysburg, Pennsylvania)
March 31 1824
Page 1
An alarming mutiny broke
out at the State Prison in Boston on Friday morning last, which was
fortunately quelled without the loss of any lives, being kept under for a
while by the prudence, discretion, and courage, of the keeper, until the
imely arrival of a detachment of Marines, commanded by Major Wainwright,
put an end to it. The number of felons who were at the time in prison, and
mostly engaged in the revolt, was two hundred and eighty-eight. The three
ring-leaders were then seized, and punished on the spot, in the presence
of all the convicts. – Nat.
Intel. March 13. [Submitted by Nancy Piper]
Republican Compiler
(Gettysburg, Pennsylvania)
June 30, 1824
Melancholy Occurrence
The Weymouth packet Volant, Capt. Burrill, was
beating up the harbor when between Long and Spectacle Islands, a flaw
struck her and immediately capsized her. She was seen by Capt. Gardner of
the sloop Rapid, who was about a mile to windward, and who repaired to the
wreck, and took off five or six persons who were clinging to the vessel,
and the shrieks of persons in the cabin lead him to cut a hole in the
quarter, which was just out of water, and out of which he took a Mrs.
Bates and her infant. Mrs. B. had been almost up to her neck in water for
the space of an hour. Mrs. Cushing of Weymouth, and a daughter of Mr. T.
Allen of this city, aged about 12 years, were drowned. – Boston Daily
Adv. [Submitted by Nancy
Piper]
Two slaves, mother and son, arrived in Boston
a few days ago. They had been given their freedom by their owner, a
citizen of Mobile, Alabama, who also presented them with an
order on a gentleman in Boston for $100.
[Douglas Monthly, Aug.
1, 1860, submitted by: Candi H. - 2008]
