During a gale on 1 September 1772, the sloop Jenny was one of 14 large merchantmen totally lost near the Ocracoke Bar. The Virginia Gazette, dated October 8 (below), lists the captains of some of the vessels as: Captains Clarke, Pearce and Carter from Edenton, Captain Hill from Virginia, Captain Dove from Connecticut, Captain Pender from New Bern and Captains Conway and Thomas from New York. The South Carolina and American General Gazette of September 28 reported "... that seven vessels out of eight who were lying at Ocracoke were entirely lost in the late gale of wind." Other reports say that nearly 50 people perished.
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