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Providence, July 20 : Extract of a letter from Newport, dated July 18, to a gentleman in this town. "On Saturday last, in the afternoon, a small two mast boat, having on board 13 young women, and 5 young men, designing for Conanicut, on a party of pleasure, by some accident overset, by which unfortunate event the following persons were drowned."

Bibliographic Details
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	[Providence] : [publisher not identified], [1782]
Series:	Early American imprints. Evans (1639-1800) ; no. 44250.
Subjects:	Drowning > Rhode Island. Death. Boating injuries. Newport (R.I.) > History. Broadsides.
Online Access:	Evans Digital Edition

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