1772: 200 HOGSHEADS OF MOLASSES ON HEN AND CHICKEN SHOAL
HISTORY OF CAPE HENLOPEN AND BEYOND
The Pennsylvania Packet, Philadelphia, Monday, August 6, 1772, reports a large Bermudian brig, laden with 200 hogsheads of molasses has run ashore on Hen and Chicken Shoals off Cape Henlopen and vessel and cargo are entirely lost.
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The Pennsylvania Gazette, Philadelphia, Thursday, March 20, 1766, reports passed an ACT appointing Wardens for the Port of Philadelphia for regulating Pilots plying in the River and Bay of Delaware the price of Pilotage to and from said Port.
A supplement to the ACT entitled “an ACT for erecting a Light House at the mouth of the Bay, on Cape Henlopen.”
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The Pennsylvania Packet. Tuesday, July 14, 1778, reports to let it be known that the Roebuck, British Man of War, of forty-four guns, was a few days ago chased upon shore near Cape Henlopen by the French Fleet lately arrived on this coast, a now lies deserted by the crew, they having fled into the country.
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