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About The Georgia gazette. (Savannah, Ga.) 1788-1802 | View Entire Issue (Aug. 13, 1801)
NASSAU, f New Providence) JiAy 241 THE hurricane. ON Wednesday this island was visited with a tremend ous hurricane. Whether we judge by the eflfcTis produced, or tbe observations of our senses, during its pe riod, we are equally led to pronounce it one of the sever est that we have ever witnessed in these islands. On a former occasion we expressed a hope that we should be exempted from gales of wind this season, “and we gave as a reason for our opinion the frequency of rains, accompanied with thunder and lightning. It is worthy of remark that for tliese some weeks there lias been little or no rain, and, though the weather hav been remarkably warm and close, there has been an entire absence of thunder and lightning. These unusual circum stances at this season should put us on our guard in future. The wind, for a day or two previous to the hurricane, hung to the northward of east, and on the morning ot its happening it blew very fresh, in squalls, from E. n. e. and kept backing/to the northward with increasing vio lence. About 1 2 15.l 5 . m. cautious people began to be alarm ed, and to prepare for what they expected would follow; but in general the earlincss of the” season quieted the sus picions of the inhabitants, as they knew it was unusual for hurricanes to happen tii! about the equinox; doubt, howe ver, was soon changed into certainty, and by 2 o’clock th.e gale had increased to that degree which we denominate a hurricane. The vessels pretty generally began to drive from their moorings, notwithstanding their masts and yaids were struck, and all their anchors down, and every other precaution attended to. The harbor fortunately was thinner of shipping than usual; yet they drove against one another, and came in whole strings to the shore. As the tide rose the hurricane increased in violence, and still kept backing, till it came about north. This very fortunately drove all the vessels on the town side of the . liarbor, and prevented any from driving to sea. By 3 o’clock there was scarce a vessel riding in the harbor. T he Guineaman, prize to his majesty’s ship Echo, that lay well up in the harbor, and on the Hogg Island side of it, parted her anchors, and drove-tov, T ards’The town. In hen progress she got upon the middle ground, and turned over on her beam ends, so that the seamen got 011 her side. ‘Flic negroes (250 in number) fell to leeward, in between decks, and were in imminent danger, but fortunately the vcs-cl beat over the bank and righted, and at length drove ashore against mr. Benjamin Lord’s wharf, winch she in part demolished; the negroes and crew were happily ail safe landed. 12 : The ship George, a Guineaman, belonging to James Moss, esq. that arrived on Tuesday, and wws still lying below the oid fort, drove* from her moorings also, and came ashore abreast of the bar, in an exposed -situation; but by judicious management, and great exertions, the negroes were ail got safe on (bore. ‘Tbe wind, after” 3 o’Hcck, began to haul slowly round tc the eastward, but without any diminution oh its violence; indeed we are rather of opinion that its violence was aug ivk ; ;ed. Objects at a small distance from the shore were yfr mris&ie, or ‘imitating, tlic spray rising from the-\va- Terin such clouds as to obscure every tiling that was near jit. In la cl, the harbor resembled three torrents, of diflfe- T-. nt censiiics, passing with inconceivable velocity; first, t <• .water, from the accumulation at the east end of the :arbor, by being drove in from the bank, and raised 6 feet Govt its common level, acquired an extremely 1 rapid mo rn >n down the harbor; the loam and spray next, forming ilmost an opaque cloud, spun along with the swiftest pos •ble degree of visible motiou r and farmed a rtratuin, a; t were, of 20 or 30 feet deep; and over that the rain passed in a rarer medium, in a perfectly horizontal direc- . Ton, and appealed'incapable of descending from its projec tile velocity. By half past 4 the wind got round to the Jrr.st, and kept veering round with the sun, a Certain sign dial the gale would not continue long. Its violence, how ever, as yet was unabated. Procidentia)ly, before it ac quired any southing, the tide had fallen, and the vessels ; having all been driven up at high water none of .them were blown off; in which case they must have gone to sea, and probably would have been lost, with those in them. A ;iu* an hour before sunset the wind had shifted round to south, or south by west, and still blew with great violence; but the town and harbor was so sheltered by tbe hills that it was very little felt. By sunset it moderated, and by 3 or 9 at night there was nothing remaining of it but a fresh gale. Y/e thank God, before we proceed to recapitulate th.e eh*magus sustained from the hurricane, that so few lives leave been lost in this elemental strife and crash of matter; we have heatd of but two or three that were drowned, . ...nil none that lost their lives on the shore. Os all the vvsselsrin the harbor three only rode cut the Storm, viz. the sloop Primrose, an American, and a Spa in h near the eastern fort. Between Evans’s hill and Western Water battery we counted 120 vessels stranded; besides which there were several sunk, and o il'ers crushed to pieces and lying under other vessels, that we could take no account of. The iho .t convincing proof of the extreme violence of the wtr.dk and perhaps the best criterion we can adduce, - is, that Tie greatc v part of the vessel; had their masts blown away, not cut, bat blown away by the board; the prize Guineaman lost .all herb, and her-bowsprit, by thtr slieer force of the w ind. Se .tr.il vessels, w e understand, are bilged; and others, b in the extreme difficulty that would attend gettmfrThehr offi arc abandoned; in general, however, we are in hopes the stranded vessels wilt be got afloat without much diffi culty or damage to their hulks. (>n shore, in .be town and its vicinity, the devastation was equally great; many valuable bowses have been blown C..W. I, and ad t. e .Antes aiul trees in general laid level _ v '" th l u -; K' ol!n[ T Nearly one half of mr. Joseph Hall’* ucuiudul grove ot cocoa nut trees were destroyed, by bem broken < ft near the hut, .one of w hich we measured, and PT™ 11 to * 7 K’Ct 7 mches m circumference just above |ne part v uere tc was broken ‘ M ”- A " s ,‘ tVr ß.“f S hous -. xof the In i„ mn , •.. .-.0'.-.i,,d.w., anJ ;hi- roof tailing Sad wc ]| teduurdmr. IW, ho. c adjolni,, sS -’t s, ' ,u - ,d ***rMy moist state; and a git/i many Wooden houses fell, from the same cause, t!ie stone underpinning not having had time to cement. The sea, to the southward of Fort Montague, made a breach through the sand lulls, arid has filled the extensive valley to the westward of it many feet deep. It also rose 5 feet over the new eastern causeway, and the road, to the foot of Evans’s kill, which it has materially’injured, ihe eastern parade and burying place was completely o verflowed by the rising of the water ia the harbor; and the sea passed in a torrent between the editor’s house, in the white ground, and the new road; it then found its way into the harbor, by passing over the causeway and the road, by capt. Gibson’s, where it has made a large gully, and would have completely destroyed it, had not the shifting of the wind occasioned the water to fall in the tipper part of the harbor. To attempt to make an accurate estimation of the dam ages sustained by the inhabitants of Nassau and its vicinity would be the height of presumption, for there is no person can say exactly what his own loss amounts tc; it we may be permitted, however, to hazard an opinion, it is, that the aggregate loss sustained from the late hurricane is not less than one hundred thousand pounds. I he following is the most accurate statement we could colledt of the vessels ashore: British, Ships Birnie and George; brigs Admiral Duncan, Mary, Peace, Ranger, and Sheerwatcr; schoo ners Be!Iona, SnearJ, Iwo Friends, Neptune, Lion’s Re venge, Jason, Hunter, Mary and Susan, and “’Lydia; sloops Prince of Wales, Industry, WhoU have the’t it, and Three Brothers. American. Brig Adventure; schooners Jcrusha, Branch, Enterprise, Fancy, Ranger, and Paragon; Loop Harmo ny. Licensed vessels. Schooners St. Trinidad, Dolores, La Cariuad, and Le Vendura; felucca Le Coriaad; sloop Neustra Senora Do Belin. Prize vessels. Ships Frateraitie, Dane; St. Antonio, Spanish: brig bt. Antonio De Padre, .Spanish: schooners Fancy, Spanish; Brothers, Dane; Maria, St. Korea. St. Barbara, Spanish: polacre Atreveda and felucca , Spanish* There are several others whose names we have not learn ed, besides a number of small vessels. Arrived yesterday, the schooner Hazard, capt. Mason, from tne coast ot Cnoa; site has brought in the American schooner Experiment, Richaruson, from Salem, bound to the Havana. l o B £ s O L D, At the ceitrthcufe in the city of Savannah, on Tacfdry the ~]tb day cj July next, A Lot and ?>nndinys in Broughton ftrett, No. 2 Ellis’s 1 , tithing, Heathccte ward; the dv.el liughoufe was lately !■? 5 aic; the M premises are now occupied by Mrs. -—Glen. Another Lot in said Rreet, with a linall Building thereon, known as No. 37 Franklin ward, joining John Howell, Efc. being a corner lot, pur chased from the Corporation, anu fubjtif to a g'-ound rent of 32 dollars 14 cents per year, valuation of laid lot 642 dollars 90 cents. Three undivided fifths of the said two lo's belong to the estates of Mcffn-. Damoufiay and Chappedtlaine, de ccafed, and fold by v irtue of an order so: that pin pole-from the Inferior Court of the county of Chatham, the propriet ors of the other two fifths agreeing tc the fide. ‘I lie titles will be indi'.putable. Terms to Le made known on the day of the laic. . ft; Savannah, April 13, 1801. £‘3 31 The above $A EL IS POST PON ID until tbe FIRST TUESD'A T in DEE TE ND HER. —COTTON “LAND^ F O R S A L F, AV ALU ABLE Tra& of Land, on Great Setilla ri ver, in the county of Camden, containing bv old lurvey 1500 acres, “within 20 miles of the town _ Mary; it is irtrti good pitch of Tide, notTubjeeT to ire flies, and has a proportion of land fit for cotton, corn, and rice. For terms apply to A. \V ATT. Lands for Sale. A TRACT, containing 300 acres, in Glyhn county, and another of 6co acres, both surveyed in 1769; the former on a branch of the Buffalo lwainp, and *the latter about-oo miles from Brunswick, equal in qua!it .> to any in the county. A trad of upwards 3000 acres on Ckmouchie, excellent pine land, on which was a mill feat before the revolution; it will be divided lo as to suit purchasers. DAVID LETON,* Broker. —£3* NOTIC E. 7“ ALL persons having any demands against the F.llate ot Matthew Motrz are reqiu fled to reniW the lame, properly attetled, to the ftibftribers, and those indebted to Hid Estate are called upon to make immediate payment. William Burnside, administrator. Susannah Burnside, administratrix. _fiulfh. i 7 r3* notice. ON Monday the 24th day of August next, will be lold, at the Gourthouie in the city of Savannah, ‘ Two Negroes Dick and Fanny, belonging to the Estate of the late Matthew Mottz, of faiduty. Sale to ••ommence at 1 o o’clock. William Burnside, administrator. Susannah Burnside, aclniiniftratrix. July 6. •• EXECUTIVE bcPARTMEN'T. 1 r . icthJ-jiv, iSci. % Ordered, ®| 1 , the *? xrks of tl;c SvpcrEr arid InS-.Hr.fih I X of the reipectivc counts in this ilatc DO, ; I one month from and utter the fir{V d'r* < f .month, August, make a mffi return to this rw’ J under their lianas and teals, of all officers civil‘A I tary, of this state, who have taken and fi.bftffiH \P “■ to support and maintain the conftitutiyn t | u .' ; 7"~ °'P| ance of the aft of the General Attend,!- 0 f ed the 29thday of November, rboo, entri >. f. I to give further Time to the Officers of this v .’. /■ and fubferibe the Oath required by the A<\ c --A-i ~ Aa to compel all Officers, Civil tmd Milin^'v’ : ’b* ‘■ State, to take and fubferibe an Oath to l::np 0 V^ r . V'l ftitution thereof,” palled the 16th day of FcV -r'.y’ • , and alio an arit’ patted the sth day > f December, 1 r-*H And that they do further make return, in like nrA;vß ot all officers rdiding within their reipectivc counties may have neglected or refufed to take and rubfcribe dB THOMAS JOHNSON, Sf X v ■ fPh Wan fS EM FLO YMEnT'7 1 AFEnSON who is well Acquainted with tie f-B goods and grocery buiinefs, and cun be well rw'JM mended. *• £ ~ N. B. A line left with the printers, directed to N, B will be duly attended to. July 2;. B ALL persons having legal demands agamit the IdUtß of George Turk arc raft. Esq. hue of ChatknH county, decealed, are and;: fired to render them in, pronerl'B atte!ted, to tire iubfcfibers; and thole indebted to L : >B Ldate are delired to make payment. jB £. ‘ i'KRE ADCRAFT, ‘ll Seth G. i. iirkadcraft. I j u7 y 24, i?ot. 9 MOTIPi? I ALL perions having any demand* again)"! the Efbt< - 01 Jacob Russel, late of tins cicy, gunsmith. tk coaled, are requeft.d to render them in, properly attend, to the fubferibers, and all thole indebted thereto will come 1 i w.trd without delay, so that the afxVu’S of thee, state may be adjaided. v Tohn Hers, ‘.A,, *•7- 1 i-xecutors. tKKDEKICK IISRBjJ <Y, ? • _r y w t> 2o * PUBLIC SALE, On the premises, on the f*rjl T.r ’fd ?i> in Sep tern her next, between tbe hours cfX end XII o'clock in the f reno.a, All the BUILDINGS on that part of the German Congregation Lot formerly occupied Uy Jacob Kulfei, deceaferi, viz. two tenements, 60 fee: iron: on Drayton lire t, calculated for a (fore and dwcl liughouie; a blackfinith's ihop fronting Prince idrect, and a livull tenement front’n x King ftre.t. TOGETHER IVITII The LEASE of that part of Laid Lot, 60 feet front on DrayrolTTcreet, and 45 feet ca King and Prince flreets, the 1 safe expiring 011 the 12th April, 1 f 07, fubjeit to an yearly ground rent of 17 dol lars and 10 cents. To be fold as the property of fuii Jacob Ruud, ac ctafed. A view of the premises may be had any time previous to the I’ale by applying to _ John Herr, “I ■*, I'ltuDEirrcx Her 3 ,J Executors ‘ July 2?.. ~~ g£r* NOTICE. ALL persons having demands again!! the Ed ate of j ultus H. Scheuber, Esq. decealed, are deiired to lend them in, properly attested; and thole indebted arc rt-quelled tp make immediate payment. Priscilla Schnu3Eß, executrix. Baltiiaser Shaffer, executor. Savannah, April 24. iv U l TV. T. ~ ALT, persons having demands against the Estate oi Jdhn Currie, efq. late of Savannah, deceaftd, are re quelled to render them in, properly attested, to mr. A lexander Currie, at the refrdence of the decealed; and all persons indebted to the laid Estate arc called on to make immediate payment, that proviGon may be made for dil charging th.e debts and legacies. Alexanber Adminiftrators, Joseph Miller, with the will Andrevv M‘Creoie, J annexed. Savannah, xofh June, 1800. _ To he RENTED, or jor SA Lt, A TWO STORY HOUSE on the east common, with a good kitchen and other conveni ent out buildings. For particulars inquire of TOHN MTADZEN". NOTICE is hereby given, That, at the expiration of nine months from this date, an application will be made to the Jullices of the Inferior Court of Chatham county to fell all that Lot, Part, or Parcel of Land, con taining 60 feet in front and 90 feet in depth, being the Eaftemmoft Half Part of a Lot situate in the city of Sa vanna!., and fronting the maiket in Ellis’s square, known in The plan of the faiid city by the letter L, together with the Buildings, Improvements, and Appurtenances, unto the fame belonging, being the real estate of George Cud dv, decealed, for the benefit of tbe heirs and creditors of said deceased. Joseph Welscher, att’v for Margaret Cuddy, adm’x'* December 25, 1800. by N. JOHNSTON ax ACO
