“Weather Gage.—The schooner Weather Gage, registered at Provincetown, of 100 72/95 tons— whereof Samuel C. Small was master, and Harvey Cook, Sylvanus Cook, Jonathan Cook, Samuel C. Small, Samuel Cook, Charles H. Dyer, Isaac W. Mayo, Jno. D. Mayo, and Joseph Mayo, of Provincetown; Leonard Ware, Ebenezer Arthur, Henry A. Baker, and Hiram Baker, of Boston; John, James, and Leonard McKenzie, of Essex, Mass., were owners— sailed from Provincetown 4th August, 1862, bound on a whaling voyage to the North Atlantic ocean, and, on the 9th day of September, 1862, near the island Coro, was captured by the Alabama and burned the next day, with her cargo and stores.

The owners claim, for the value of the schooner, outfit, &c $10,220 50”

Reference Data:

Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, Vol. 1, by United States President and United States Department of State, 1867, page 191