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Brooks, Henry M. (Henry Mason), 1822-1898

"The Olden Time Series, Vol. 5: Some Strange and Curious Punishments Gleanings Chiefly from Old Newspapers of Boston and Salem, Massachusetts"

After joining them, he
fitted out a galley, and cruised in the Delaware and Chesapeak,
where he was very successful in capturing a number of American
vessels. He was very fond of exercising every species of
cruelty on those unhappy people who fell into his hands; among
other things, he took great delight in cutting off the ears of
some, and noses of others. Unluckily for him he was known by
some honest Jack Tars, belonging to vessels in this harbour,
who, in the time of the war, had been made prisoners by him;
these honest fellows very kindly furnished him with a coat of
_Tar_ and _Feathers_; and that he might not in a short time
forget them, they took off one of his _ears_; they then kindly
shewed him the way out of town, without doing him any further
injury.--It is supposed he will bend his course for Newbern,
and endeavour to take a passage in some vessel bound to the
northern states."
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FROM THE AUGUSTA CHRONICLE.


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