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Schooner Three Sisters, a remarkable high stern schooner, no
cabin windows; has a yellow streak fore and aft; from the break of
the quarter deck to the stern a white streak; no mouldings round
the stern, bur painted yellow in imitation of moulding. She is
registered in Halifax, owned by Messrs. Jona and John Tremain,
burthen 63 49/94 tons; John Stairs, master. The signatures to the
register are Thomas N. Jeffreys, Collector; J. Slater, Comptroller;
and James Grant, Deputy Naval Officer. She has her clearance from
Gaspé or Percé, in the Province of Lower Canada, signed by Hugh
O'Hara, Deputy Collector.
The people left on board were, Edward Jordan, a man about thirty
eight years of age, dark complexion, black hair, and a very black
beard, of an innocent appearance. John Kelly, mate, about twenty
two or three years of age, five feet three or four inches high,
very much pitted by the small pox, will probably pass as master of
the vessel. Edward Jordan has his wife and four children on board,
one of the four a boy about eight or nine years of age, and the
oldest girl very much disfigured by a burn on her back and her
right arm.
The above act of piracy and murder was committed on the 13th
ultimo on the eastern coast of Nova Scotia, and within a few days
sail of Halifax, where the vessel was bound. In an unguarded
moment, while the captain and one of the hands were in the cabin,
the above mentioned Jordan, having first corrupted the mate, Kelly,
and secured the arms, discharged a pistol down the sky-light at the
captain, which wounded him and killed the man who was with him.
The captain then ran on deck just in time to see the last stroke
given to his only remaining man, who fell dead upon the deck. He
was then fallen upon by Jordan and his wife, and another pistol
attempted to be fired at them, which flashed, and in the struggle
was thrown overboard. Kelly, at this time, was charging another
pistol, which the captain observing, while engaged with Jordan and
his wife, by great exertion, disengaged himself, and seizing the
hatch, threw it over and jumped upon it. As it blew very hard he
was soon clear of the vessel, and remaining in the water for three
hours, was providentially fallen in with by the schooner Eliza, of
Hingham, Captain Stoddard, who took him up when nearly exhausted by
cold and literally insensible. From Captain Stoddard, he received
the most humane treatment, and every attention necessary to his
recovery and subsequent comfort.
Editors of papers will subserve the cause of justice by giving
the above every possible publicity, in order that the perpetrators
of so atrocious an act may be brought to condign punishment. And
all persons who may come to the knowledge of any facts likely to
lead to a discovery of the property and the offenders, will have it
in recollection, that over and above the satisfaction they must
feel in their detection, a competent salvage is in all such cases
awarded. |
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