School: San Leonard, Ballycullane
- Location:
- Saintleonards, Co. Wexford
- Teacher: Mary B. Dunphy
Archival Reference
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0871, Page 106
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- The Log Book of the Lady Bagot
The Williams family, New Ross, grandchildren of Captain Williams lent the writer the Log Book of the Lady Bagot, for the Collection of Folklore.
From it can be inferred
(1.) The Lady Bagot was trading from New Ross to Savannah in 1847.
(2.) It took eight weeks to cover the journey.
(3.) It stayed about seven weeks in the port of Savannah
(4) One of the crew ^Martin Moran was put in jail in Savannah for fighting a coloured man.
(5.) Members of the crew gave way to drunkenness in port.
(6) The Captain had to go on shore to get them out of their 'scrapes'.
(7.) That the "John Bell" from New Ross passed up the river to Savannah as the "Lady Bagot" lay in the same harbour loading at 9 a.m. on January 24th 1848.
(8.) Martin Moran was the name of the sailor from the "Lady Bagot" who fought the coloured man in Savannah.
(9.) The cargo taken in at Savannah for New Ross seems to consist of
Timber, apples, molasses, sugar and rice.(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Mary B. Dunphy
- Gender
- Female
- Occupation
- Teacher
