Democratic Sentinel, Volume 8, Number 22, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 June 1884 — Lost at Sea. [ARTICLE]

Lost at Sea.

[Philadelphia trfegiam.] The brig G. P. Sherwood, of St. John, N. 8., arrived at this port May 2 from Barbados with a cargo of sugar. As the West India trade was dull, it was thought advisable to send her with a cargo of 600 tons of anthracite coal, valued at $2,400, to Halifax, N. S. While the Sherwood was lying here Mrs. Taylor, the wife of the captain, came on from St. John and decided to go home on the vessel. June 6 the vessel sailed, having on board ten persons all told, consisting of Capt. Robert D. Taylor, his wife and brother, Daniel Taylor, first mate Dorson Stevens, a second mate name unknown, Steward George Gittiffe (colored), seaman Nicolas McMullen and Joseph Nicholson, the latter living at 139 Huntingdon, Philadelphia, and two other seamen names unknown. No tidings were heard of her until to-day, when the mate, Dorson Stevens, arrived at New York on the Spanish bark Rafael, and reported that the Sherwood foundered at sea the night of June 14, and all were lost except himself, who took to a boat and was picked up the next day by the bark Rafael. The Sherwood was a double-decked brig, of 400 tons register, and was built at Rockland, N. 8., in 1870.