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and one or two of the hands were badly frozen. The whole of the 

 crew swam ashore from the ship, and it was near three quarters of an 

 hour before any dry clothes could be procured for them. 



'« A schooner from Haddam for New-York, loaded with provisions, 

 is ashore on Oak-Neck Beach, and bilged ; all hands saved. There 

 are four sloops ashore at Oyster Bay, and a great number at Cow Bay, 

 Little Neck Bay, and Flushing Bay. 



" The sloop Traveller, Captain Conklin, from Sag Harbour for New- 

 York, laden with wood, was driven ashore, in the late storm, at Eaton's 

 Neck ; there were fourteen souls on board, and we are sorry to say that 

 thirteen of them perished, including the captain. 



" Another sloop was cast away at Eaton's Neck, and several of the 

 crew, it is said, have perished. 



" A sloop foundered off Lloyd's Neck, in the late storm ; the fate of 

 the crew not known. 



" We further learn that a sloop laden with flour was driven ashore at 

 Norwalk, in the late storm. 



" At Black Rock, a new sharp-built schooner was driven ashore, and 

 bilged. 



" A shallop loaded with hay, from Old Man's Creek, was overset by 

 the violence of the wind on Monday night, and the people, with diffi- 

 culty, saved their lives. 



" The packet Gold Huntress, which left this port, before the storm, 

 for Newport, (R. I.) rode out the gale in New-Haven harbour. 



" Mr. Holly's mill-dam, at Stamford, was washed away. Mr. Joseph 

 Crawford's dwelling house, at New-Canaan, was unroofed, without injur- 

 ing the family. A barn at Stamford was blown down. A free negro 

 man, named Robert, was frozen to death on the road, near Stamford. A 

 negro man at South Salem, aged about eighty, deserted his dwelling 



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