A True Account of the Voyage of the Nottingham-Galley of London, / John Dean Commander, from the River Thames to New-England

Near which Place she was cast away on Boon-Island , December 11, 1710. by the Captain's Obstinacy, who endeavour'd to betray her to the French , or run her ashore; with an Account of the Falsehoods in the Captain's Narrative .
And a faithful Relation of the Extremities the Company was reduc'd to for Twenty-four Days on that desolate Rock, where they were forc'd to eat one of their Companions who died, but were at last wonderfully deliver'd.
The whole attested upon Oath, by
Christopher Langman , Mate; Nicholas Mellen , Boatswain; and George White , Sailor in the said Ship. LONDON : Printed for S. Popping at the Raven in Pater-noster-Row , 1711. (Price Six Pence.)
We having been Sufferers in this unfortunate Voyage, had reason to believe, from the Temper of our Captain, who treated us barbarously both by Sea and Land, that he would misrepresent the Matter, as we now find he has done in a late Pamphlet by him publish'd, intituled , A Narrative of the Sufferings, Preservation, and Deliverance of Captain John Dean , and Company, in the Nottingham Galley of London , &c. London, Printed by R. Tooky, and Sold by S. Popping at the Raven in Pater-noster-Row, and at the Printing Press under the Royal-Exchange.
Our Apprehensions of this made us refuse the Encouragement which was offered us in New England, and resolve to come home that we might have an Opportunity to lay before the World, and before those Gentlemen and others who have lost their Estates and Relations in this unhappy Voyage, the true Causes of our own and their Misfortunes, and how they might, humanely speaking, have been easily avoided, had Captain Dean been either an honest or an able Commander. This we think ourselves oblig'd to do in common Justice, and to prevent others from suffering by him in the like manner.
We cannot but in the first place take notice of a notorious Falshood he asserts in his Preface . That he might have had the Attestation of several of his Fellow Sufferers now in Town to the Truth of what he has wrote, since he very well knows that Two of us did positively refuse it in publick Company, after reading a part of it, and told him to his Face , that it was not true.

Christopher Langman
Nicholas Mellen
sailor on the Nottingham galley George White
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2016-08-10

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Nottingham Galley (Merchant ship); Boon Island (Me.)

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