Genealogy of the Corser family in America : embracing many of the descendants of the early settlers of the name in Massachusetts and New Hampshire with some reminiscences of their trans-Atlantic cousins . te July 18, 1818, inwhich he says that he had shipped on board a vessel for , at $20 per month, expecting to be gone threemonths. In January of the following year we find him againat Boston where he embarked as mate on board the ship Maimion, destined for Manila in the China Sea. A year anda half later (June 20, 1820) he writes from Baltimore, thathad he made a good voyage in the Ma
Genealogy of the Corser family in America : embracing many of the descendants of the early settlers of the name in Massachusetts and New Hampshire with some reminiscences of their trans-Atlantic cousins . te July 18, 1818, inwhich he says that he had shipped on board a vessel for , at $20 per month, expecting to be gone threemonths. In January of the following year we find him againat Boston where he embarked as mate on board the ship Maimion, destined for Manila in the China Sea. A year anda half later (June 20, 1820) he writes from Baltimore, thathad he made a good voyage in the Maimion, he shouldhave come home to see his friends ; but as it was, he hadengaged to go as second mate in the ship General Hand,on a voyage around Cape Horn. COAST OF HOLLAND SHIPWRECK. On the sixth of March, 1821, he writes from Rotterdam,that his vessel, bound for that city, arrived off the coast ofHolland in the last of December, 1820. The weatherbeing uncommon cold, the ship got into the ice ; we lost ouranchors, and were obliged to let her go ashore, and she waswrecked. I lost all my clothes and part of my wages. Thecrew barely escaped with their lives by creeping on blocks ofice to the REV. ENOCH CORSER (7^)- SUPPLEMENTARY. I 2 I 264. HANNAH (cORSER) ADAMS {76). Hannah died in 1820, at the home of her daughter, , in Amesbury, Mass. She was converted under thepreaching of Rev. Mr. Paul, the colored clergyman, andjoined the Free-Will Baptist church. Her death was occa-sioned by the rupture of a blood-vessel, while in the act oftaking clothes from a line. A thunder-shower was rising atthe time, and the shock produced by a sudden clap of thun-der is supposed to have been the immediate cause of thefatality. She was a schoolmistress, and taught school aswell after as before the death of her husband, as appearsfrom the following note written soon after that event, whichis interesting both as a relic and as a specimen of her man-ner, punctuation marks and a few cap
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