The arrival of a Spanish galleon in New London in the 1750s was strictly bad news.
The ship, laden with silver and gold, had run aground on Bartlett Reef and was damaged beyond repair. She had to be .
A year before Connecticut was rocked by the most powerful earthquake in its history, an otherworldly story by "Dr. Steal" was published with a dire warning.
On January 9, 1789, the Connecticut Gazette’s lead story was an account by a sailor on a British ship describing what he witnessed on a slaving voyage between Africa and the West Indies sugar planta.