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The next year, April 10, 1800: "This day a sloop and 

 a schooner got on shore at the Glades." 



The next year, October 24, 1801, the following minute, 

 not wholly clear, is made : " Mr. Samuel Bates' schooner 

 got on the rocks off Brush Island and all lost. Mr. Bates, 

 Mr. John Kent, Captain Dan'l Loring of Hull and one 

 young man — Captain Loring came ashore in the boat on 

 the Glades." The uncertainty seems to be whether 

 Captain Loring came ashore dead or alive. The tragic list 

 continues, October 9, 1803 : "A very remarkable gale of 

 wind. Two vessels cast away on the beach by Mr. Aaron 

 Nichols'. One man drowned." 



The monotony of these wrecks may be relieved by a 

 drowning incident which occurred March 3, 1808, in the 

 Gulf above where the bridge now is. 



Two boys, sons of the two Captains Snow, were play- 

 ing upon the thin ice near the open channel about eighty 

 feet from the bank and broke through. Their mothers 

 seeing them in the water both ran to rescue them, followed 

 by a little daughter. The ice held until one mother 

 reached a place ten feet away from the boys, when she 

 broke through. Her little girl of eleven years also fell 

 in a few feet away. The remaining woman turned and 

 ran screaming for help, while the mother and daughter 

 and the two boys were hanging to the edge of the thin 

 ice in the cold water. 



There was no man nearer than a half mile away. Cap- 

 tains Luther Stephenson and Nichols Tower, Col. New- 

 comb Bates, and Thaddeus Lawrence, and perhaps 

 others were standing upon one of our wharves when the 

 cry came from up in the Gulf. They all ran towards the 

 scene of drowning children and woman. Luther Stephen- 

 son saw two children and the woman with their heads 

 above the water holding on to the ice, but one of the 

 children had gone down. Another child was just sinking, 

 and Captain Stephenson, tearing off a fence rail, rushed 



