The privateer brig General Mifflin, Capt. [John] Hamilton, returning from a cruize, was unfortunately, by the ignorance of the pilot, ran ashore off Sinepuxent, where the vessel is lost, but the guns and materials are saved. Seventeen of the crew perished by the severity of the weather.1
1. General Mifflin was a 12-gun Pennsylvania privateer. See Volume 6.
