The Hope Schooner came in; she had sailed from Boston on Christmas day, but soon after she got out, a Snow Storm coming on the Pilot would not venture to carry her over Nantucket Shoals, wherefore she was obliged to go round them, and the Wind suddenly shifting to the North West, and blowing with great violence, Lieut. [George] Dawson after suffering extremely from Cold and Wet, and the Schooner making much Water, to avoid being forced to the West Indies, pushed for Bermudas and going in there the Schooner struck upon a Rock.

The Officers and Crew of the Halifax Schooner came to Boston in a Wood Sloop, and reported that on the 15th of February as they were going with a fresh gale large from Cranberry harbour to Machias, the Pilot himself steering, the Schooner about Noon run upon some Rocks, which it being then high Water, were covered; that as there was a great deal of Sea she soon bulged, and they with difficulty saved their Lives, that the succeeding Night it blew very hard and the Vessel next morning was entirely split to pieces, and that they had lost Every thing but the Cloaths on their backs.