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Page 2 Brig Halcion Castaway
3 Cold 5 ° below Zero.
1839
3 To establish a Telegraph
3 Memorialize the Legislation on Spirituous Liqour
3' Hard SSE Storm
4.5.6 Town House
7 Hurricane in Liverpool in England
8. Annual Meeting
9 Recevd [RECEIVED] a letter from Dan'el [DANIEL]
> 9 Fire
9. N Eastrn [Eastern] boundary
> 12. Towns. [TOWN'S] Committee report to build a new Assylum [ASYLUM] at Quaise
> 13 Circus, Steam Boat, Soldiers &c
14 – Henry C Wright ....
> 13 Episcopalian Church building...Jarred Coffin house
> 15 Silk Factory
19 Finished rebuilding the North T of Straight Wharf
20 .. 12m uncommonly stormy
21. Dreadful Gale of Wind
21 Sloop Fame Isaiah Folger got ashore at Holms Hole
22. Tellegraph [TELEGRAPH] Very useful
1840
22. Channel cut from the Wharf to Brant Point
24. Steam boat Lexington burnt
25. Zenas Coffins. [COFFIN'S] lighter on the Bar & in danger
25.. Small Pox and Kine Pox.
26. I was vaccinated
26. Vaccination through out the town , at the town E xpence
27 Annual Meetg [MEETING]. House at Quays [QUAISE] finished
27. Russian Empire Census
28 Spring like weathe [WEATHER]
" Three Ships arrived
" Oil sold to be shipped to England
28. Ship Phoenix arrived at the Wharf
29 {Violant [VIOLENT] Tempest. Abner Smalls. Vessel struck }
{ with lightening & took fire, & much damaged }
30. Wm. Giffords. [WILLIAM GIFFORD'S] Vessel stranded on the Bar
31. Anti slavery Meeting, &c
31. Aron [AARON] Mitchell building a large store.
30. Isaiah Robbinson, both Thighs broken
30. Eunice Ross. High School &c
31. A refreshing shower of Rain
" Population of Nantuket.
31 Small Pox un ck c̅. [UNCHECKED WITH] 34
32 Schr [SCHOONER] Hope & Susan bilged on the Bar
" Number of Inhabitants on the State of New York
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1) Original spelling maintained in transcription.
2) The author appears to be using a superscript abbreviation for "ship": sp. Thus, "Township" (line 13) is Town[sp]. Specific ship names are indicated as such with this abbreviation; as in line 29: Abner Small[sp]