256 CAPTAIN ZACHARY G. LAMSON 



unfortunate as usual, the folio wing clippings 

 from the Salem papers show : 



" Salem Gazette, " March 30, 1821 : " Brig 

 ' Belvidere,' Z. G. Lamson of Beverly, 

 Master, which sailed from the Balize Dec. 

 4, arrived in Crook harbor much shat- 

 tered." " Salem Register," July, 1822: 

 "Brig 'Belvidere' was discharging at the 

 Balize, June 17, 1822, in consequence of 

 damage received June 15 by a log on the 

 way down the river." 



"Salem Register," Nov. 27, 1822: "Ar- 

 rived in Charleston Nov. 15 brig 'Belvi- 

 dere/ Lamson, master, bound to New Or- 

 leans, put in leaky." 



"Salem Register," 1822: "A New York 

 paper reports that the brig 'Belvidere,' 

 Lamson, master, has been condemned and 

 sold at Port au Prince." 



In addition to these accidents of the sea 

 Captain Lamson had the misfortune to be 

 taken by a piratical vessel and experienced 

 both torture and loss of cargo. Piracy, long 

 rife in the Caribbean Sea, had at this time 



