An essay for the recording of illustrious providences

Remarkable also, is the preservation of which some belonging to Dublin in Ireland had Experience; whom a New-England Vessel providentially met, in an open Boat, in the wide Sea, and saved them from perishing. Concerning which memorable Providence, I have received the following Narrative: A Ship of Dublin burdened about seventy Tuns Andrew Bennet Master, being bound from Dublin to Virginia; this Vessel having been some Weeks at Sea, onward of their Voyage, and being in the Latitude of 39. about 150 Leagues distant from Cape God in New-England, on April 18. 1681. a day of very stormy Weather, and a great Sea, suddenly there sprang a Plank in the fore part of the Ship, about six a Clock in the morning: whereupon the Water increased so fast in the Ship, that all their endeavours could not keep her from sinking above half an hour: so when the Ship was just sinking, some of the Company ⟨p. 27⟩resolved to launch out the Boat, which was a small one. They did accordingly, and the Master, the Mate, the Boat-swain, the Cook, two Fore-mast-men and a Boy, kept such hold of it, when a Cast of the Sea suddenly helped them off with it, that they got into it. The heaving of the Sea now suddenly thrust them from the Ship, in which there were left nineteen Souls, viz. 16 Men and three Women; who all perished in the mighty Waters, while they were trying to make Rafters by cutting down the Masts, for the preservation of their lives, as long as might be. The seven in the Boat apprehended themselves to be in a condition little better then that of them in the Ship, having neither Sails nor Oars, neither Bread nor Water, and no Instrument of any sort, except a Knife and a piece of Deal-board, with which they made sticks, and set them up in the sides of the Boat, and covered them with some Irish cloth of their own Garments, to keep off the spray of the Sea, as much as could be by so poor a matter. In this condition they drave with an hard Wind and high Sea all that day, and the night following. But in the next morning about six a Clock, they saw a Ketch (the Master whereof was Mr. Edmund Hen, field of Salem in New-England) under Sail, ⟨p. 28⟩which Ketch coming right with them, too• them up and brought them safe to New-England.

Remarkable also, is the preservation of which some belonging to Dublin in Ireland had Experience; whom a New-England Vessel providentially met, in an open Boat, in the wide Sea, and saved them from perishing. Concerning which memorable Providence, I have received the following Narrative: A Ship of Dublin burdened about seventy Tuns Andrew Bennet Master, being bound from Dublin to Virginia; this Vessel having been some Weeks at Sea, onward of their Voyage, and being in the Latitude of 39. about 150 Leagues distant from Cape God in New-England, on April 18. 1681. a day of very stormy Weather, and a great Sea, suddenly there sprang a Plank in the fore part of the Ship, about six a Clock in the morning: whereupon the Water increased so fast in the Ship, that all their endeavours could not keep her from sinking above half an hour: so when the Ship was just sinking, some of the Company