Info from: Bob Havens
This is an excerpt from "The Archibald Havens Papers" by Barrington S Havens concerning the death of Capt. William Havens:
" Capt. William perished in a shipwreck off Cape Cod in November 1798, a fate similar to that of his brother Daniel--536, who was lost at sea some years before. Knowing that the brig "Lucy" of Sag Harbor had been lost off Cape Cod in 1798, Mr. Vail searched the files of Frothingham's Long Island Herald and found the following in the issue of Dec 3 1798:
"On the 2ist of November last the brig 'Lucy' of this port (Sag Harbor), James Terry master, belonging to Col. Benjamin Huntting from Macbias, Maine, laden with lumber on her homeward bound passage, was cast ashore on Cape Cod and entirely lost, and melancholy to add, Capt. William Havens, pilot, Jeremiah Rogers, mate, and a black man all perished in attempting to gain the shore. Capt. William Havens was an inhabitant of this place. In nautical knowledge very few excelled him. During the last Revolution he distinguished himself as a real Boanerges in the cause of freedom; he ever felt ready to fall or rise with the ruin or happiness of his country. But alas, the cause of liberty is not always the channel of preferment and reward, and he was possessed of too great an enlargement of heart ever to mourn his own misery or fortunes. As he lived generally esteemed, lo his death is universally lamented." (R14)
This is an excerpt from "The Archibald Havens Papers" by Barrington S Havens concerning the death of Capt. William Havens:
" Capt. William perished in a shipwreck off Cape Cod in November 1798, a fate similar to that of his brother Daniel--536, who was lost at sea some years before. Knowing that the brig "Lucy" of Sag Harbor had been lost off Cape Cod in 1798, Mr. Vail searched the files of Frothingham's Long Island Herald and found the following in the issue of Dec 3 1798:
"On the 2ist of November last the brig 'Lucy' of this port (Sag Harbor), James Terry master, belonging to Col. Benjamin Huntting from Macbias, Maine, laden with lumber on her homeward bound passage, was cast ashore on Cape Cod and entirely lost, and melancholy to add, Capt. William Havens, pilot, Jeremiah Rogers, mate, and a black man all perished in attempting to gain the shore. Capt. William Havens was an inhabitant of this place. In nautical knowledge very few excelled him. During the last Revolution he distinguished himself as a real Boanerges in the cause of freedom; he ever felt ready to fall or rise with the ruin or happiness of his country. But alas, the cause of liberty is not always the channel of preferment and reward, and he was possessed of too great an enlargement of heart ever to mourn his own misery or fortunes. As he lived generally esteemed, lo his death is universally lamented." (R14)
Info from: Bob Havens
This is an excerpt from "The Archibald Havens Papers" by Barrington S Havens concerning the death of Capt. William Havens:
" Capt. William perished in a shipwreck off Cape Cod in November 1798, a fate similar to that of his brother Daniel--536, who was lost at sea some years before. Knowing that the brig "Lucy" of Sag Harbor had been lost off Cape Cod in 1798, Mr. Vail searched the files of Frothingham's Long Island Herald and found the following in the issue of Dec 3 1798:
"On the 2ist of November last the brig 'Lucy' of this port (Sag Harbor), James Terry master, belonging to Col. Benjamin Huntting from Macbias, Maine, laden with lumber on her homeward bound passage, was cast ashore on Cape Cod and entirely lost, and melancholy to add, Capt. William Havens, pilot, Jeremiah Rogers, mate, and a black man all perished in attempting to gain the shore. Capt. William Havens was an inhabitant of this place. In nautical knowledge very few excelled him. During the last Revolution he distinguished himself as a real Boanerges in the cause of freedom; he ever felt ready to fall or rise with the ruin or happiness of his country. But alas, the cause of liberty is not always the channel of preferment and reward, and he was possessed of too great an enlargement of heart ever to mourn his own misery or fortunes. As he lived generally esteemed, lo his death is universally lamented." (R14)
This is an excerpt from "The Archibald Havens Papers" by Barrington S Havens concerning the death of Capt. William Havens:
" Capt. William perished in a shipwreck off Cape Cod in November 1798, a fate similar to that of his brother Daniel--536, who was lost at sea some years before. Knowing that the brig "Lucy" of Sag Harbor had been lost off Cape Cod in 1798, Mr. Vail searched the files of Frothingham's Long Island Herald and found the following in the issue of Dec 3 1798:
"On the 2ist of November last the brig 'Lucy' of this port (Sag Harbor), James Terry master, belonging to Col. Benjamin Huntting from Macbias, Maine, laden with lumber on her homeward bound passage, was cast ashore on Cape Cod and entirely lost, and melancholy to add, Capt. William Havens, pilot, Jeremiah Rogers, mate, and a black man all perished in attempting to gain the shore. Capt. William Havens was an inhabitant of this place. In nautical knowledge very few excelled him. During the last Revolution he distinguished himself as a real Boanerges in the cause of freedom; he ever felt ready to fall or rise with the ruin or happiness of his country. But alas, the cause of liberty is not always the channel of preferment and reward, and he was possessed of too great an enlargement of heart ever to mourn his own misery or fortunes. As he lived generally esteemed, lo his death is universally lamented." (R14)
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He acted for Col Henry B Livingston in securing vessels for refugees. He served in NY's 2nd, 3rd, and 4th Regiments of the Line.
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