Tuesday Night last, one John Coggin, late Boatswain of the Bomb Brig, (who with three other Prisoners lately broke out of Windham Goal) was found on board a Brig in this Harbour: He gives the following Account of said Prisoners, viz. That the Night after breaking out of Goal, they, with the Help of one Lewis, who was taken in a Prize Vessel, stole a Canoe near Norwich-Landing, with which they attempted to cross the Sound to Long-Island, but at the Entrance of the Race, near Gull-Islands, the Canoe overset, when all of them except Coggin, were drowned. Their Names are Edward Sneyd, (late Commander of the BombBrig) 1 William Cook, John Russell, and —— Lewis.
