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    NAME: Franklin
    REASON: foundered in storm
    OTHER NAMES(s): -
    DATE:  October 10, 1820
    LOCATION: Lake Erie, off Grand River
    TYPE: schooner
    HULL TYPE: wooden
    BUILDER: -
    OWNER: P.V.S. Hamot
    MASTER: Capt. Charles Hayt
    TONNAGE: -
    LENGTH: -
    BEAM: -
    DEPTH: -
    CASUALTIES: 4
    SURVIVORS: -

                      Erie, Oct. 21
                        MELANCHOLY SHIPWRECK - It is with
                      extreme regret we have to record the loss
                      of the schooner Franklin, Capt. Hayt,
                      belonging to Mr. P.V.S. Hamot of this
                      place. When the gale commenced on
                      Tuesday the 10th inst. she was lying
                      at anchor at the mouth of Grand River,
                      where she had stopped to discharge some
                      merchandise she had on board for Hamot
                      & Tracy of Painesville. She was seen to
                      put to sea about 8 o'clock on Tuesday
                      night, and was discovered Wednesday
                      about twelve miles below Grand River,
                      apparently stationary. That evening her
                      was found on the beach, and a number of
                      salt barrels came ashore, together with
                      her companionway, binnacle and pump. On
                      Wednesday night she went to the bottom,
                      and, painful to state, all her crew have
                      found a watery grave. She was discovered
                      on Friday the 13th, by Capt. Eaton, of
                      the schooner Rachael. She is about three
                      miles from shore, near where seen on
                      Wednesday, in ten fathoms of water; stand
                      erect, with her top-mast out of water.
                      Her cargo consisting of Salt and Merchandise,
                      is supposed to have been worth between four
                      and five thousand dollars. The crew consisted
                      of Capt. Charles Hayt, formerly of Boston,
                      Mass.; Daniel D. Morton; James Bothel; and 
                      Robert Cory. None of the bodies have yet
                      been found.
                        Capt. Hayt has left a wife and four
                      children, who reside in Mill creek township,
                      in this county.
                    

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Sources: "Shipwrecks of the Great Lakes", by Dana Thomas Bowen
          Detroit Gazette, November 3, 1820