LINCOLN, RUTLAND & STAMFORD MERCURY
August 20 1789
Last week arrived in this town from America, after nine weeks´ passage Mrs Eliza DAVIES with her two daughters, natives of that country, and wife of Mr John DAVIES
of this City [Lincoln] who lived near twenty years as a merchant at
Charles Town, South Carolina. This gentleman and his family were among
the number of those unfortunate persons who suffered all the calamities
and miseries incident to the Civil War during the unfortunate
dissentions in North America. He was closely confined on board a
loathsome prison ship seventeen weeks during the most sickly and hottest
season of the year, for refusing to fight against his countrymen, and
whilst imprisoned, his house and Plantation were plundered of every
article of property by the opposite party and his family hourly exposed
to the insult and abuse of a licencious (sic) soldiery who threatened to
murder them on every complaint of their cruelty and ill-treatment, and
deprived them of every provision. Such misfortune and such heartfelt
distress are little known in this happy country where good laws and good
government effectually protect every individual in his person and
property.
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