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From: "Cathy Joynt Labath" <>
Subject: [IRELAND-OLD-NEWS] The Times; Apr 15, 1788 "Galway & Limerick"
Date: Thu, 31 Jul 2003 17:36:43 -0500


The Times
London, Middlesex, England
April 15, 1788

On Tuesday the 8th instant, as Thomas Holton, Esq., Surveyor of Excise in
the district of Loughrea, in the county of Galway, was doing his duty, near
Woodford, in the said county, attended by a gauger, he was pursued and attacked
by ten desperate villains with spades and pitchforks, who broke his arms,
fractured his skull, and beat out his eyes, at same time desiring the gauger to
fly or they would kill him. Holton languished under the wounds he received until
Saturday morning and then died in the greatest agony, leaving a wife and five
helpless children.

Limerick, April 3. Tuesday last the Bridget, Case, of Corke, from New York,
with flaxseed, staves, and returned Irish provisions, for Newport Prat, put into
this harbour in distress; On the 5th ult. when lying to in lat. 48. 25. N. long
48.50. she shipped a lea, which carried away her two boats and tackling, the
companion binnacle, cabuse, compasses, quarter rails, quarter and main deck
staunches, hen coops, water casks, a quantity of spare yards, tip masts, spars,
windlass, and in short every thing above deck, except the mast; it broke the
tiller, shook the rudder and gunwale, flarted all the bolts and trunnions above
the water, stove in the dead lights, and carried three of the hands overboard;
one of whom was drowned, another thrown on deck by a second sea, and third saved
himself by laying hold of a rope which hung over the side of the vessel.

Cathy Joynt Labath
Ireland Old News
http://www.IrelandOldNews.com/


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