Boon Island - Kenneth Roberts [10]
26. Deane's role in this enterprise awaits historical investigation and is contained in his numerous dispatches from Ostend located in PRO SP 77 / 7586.
27. See n. 2 for the 1730 account; A Narrative of the Shipwreck of the Nottingham Galley & Co., First publish'd in 1711, Revis'd, and Reprint'd with additions in 1727, republish'd in 1730, and now propos'd for the last Edition during the Author's Life-time. By John Deane, then Commander, of the Nottingham Galley: but now, and for many Years past, His Majesty's Consul for the Ports of Flanders, Residing at Ostend (London, 1738).
28. "An Abstract of Consul Deane's Narrative," in Samuel Wilson, Sermons. Published at the Request of the Church under his Care, Printed by Aaron Ward, at the King's Arms in Little Britain; and Joseph Fisher, against Tom's Coffee-house in Cornhill (London, 1735).
29. Last Will and Testament of John Deane of Wilford, PRO PROB II.8282: 36267.
30. Captain John Deane, A Narrative of the Shipwreck of the Nottingham Galley, in her Voyage from England to Boston, with an account of the miraculous escape of the captain and the crew, on a rock, called Boon-Island, the hardships they endured there, and their happy deliverance. By Captain John Deane, then commander of the said galley and for many years after His Majesty's Consul for the ports of Flanders, residing at Ostend. Published by Mr. Miles Whitworth, son of Mr. Whitworth (Boston, 1762). Whitworth not only
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memorialized Deane with the posthumous republication of the account of the shipwreck of the Nottingham Galley but also named his son John Deane Whitworth. This namesake was among the first loyalists brought to trial during the American Revolution. He was described in November of 1776 as "a prisoner taken in arms against the forces of the United States (and) brought before the Committee of Public Safety." "Record of the Boston Committee of Correspondence, Inspection, and Safety, May to November 1776," New England Historical and Genealogical Register 63 (1909): 252.
31. William Abbatt reprinted the 1711 account as an extra number of The Magazine of History and Biography with Notes and Queries 59 (1917): 199217. Smith's edition is titled A Narrative of the Shipwreck of the Nottingham Galley, in her Voyage from England to Boston, with an Account of the Miraculous Escape of the Captain and his Crew, on a Rock called Boon-Island, the Hardships they endured there, and their happy Deliverance. By Captain John Deane, then Commander of the said Galley; but for many years after His Majesty's Consul for the Ports of Flanders, residing at Ostend. Introduction by Mason Philip Smith (Portland: Provincial Press, 1968).
32. R. Thomas, Remarkable Shipwrecks, Fires, Famines, Calamities, Providential Deliverances, and Lamentable Disasters on the Seas (Hartford: Andrus, 1835), and George W. Barrington, Remarkable Voyages and Shipwrecks, being a Popular Collection of Extraordinary and Authentic Sea Narratives relating to all Parts of the Globe (London: Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton & Kent, 1881). An abridged version entitled "Cannibalism in Maine" forms a chapter in the widely read Great Storms and Famous Shipwrecks of the New England Coast, ed. Edward Rowe Snow (Boston: Yankee, 1943). Also of interest is "The Grim Tale of the Nottingham Galley," in Lost Ships and Lonely Seas, ed. Ralph D. Paine (New York: Century, 1921), pp. 30930.
33. Keith Huntress, Narratives of Shipwrecks & Disasters, 15861860 (Ames: Iowa State University, 1974).
34. A. W. Brian Simpson, Cannibalism and the Common Law (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1980), pp. 11415.
35. W. H. G. Kingston, John Deane of Nottingham (London: Griffith and Farran, 1870).
36. M. N. Barker, Walks Around Nottingham, p. 49. Deane left no issue and his epitaph records that his wife, Sarah, died just one day before he did.
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Appendix
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