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
intituled a supplement to the ACT intituled “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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