Ancestors and Descendants of Adams and Mann and Others

  Οn Saturday, October 11th, a very high wind from the S. S. E. rose suddenly and continued to blow for some hours. In the village of Pakefield, its violence was so great, that it threw down a chimney, which fell amongst some children, who, however, with a slight injury to one of them, almost miraculously escaped. The strength of the wind occasioned a great swell in the sea, and obliged the fishing-boat, whose melancholy loss it is now my object to record, with others overtaken in the storm, to pass the night in reaching in and out from land. During the violence of the storm, this boat was so well kept to the wind, that it only shipped a little light water. It had on board, ten men, namely, Nathaniel Colby, the master, Samuel Hook, and Philip Adams, of Kirkley; Randal Colby, of Pakefield; W. Proctor, of Wrentham; W. Manning, of Raydon, D. Gray, of Frostenden; and R. Howlett, of Lowestoft; besides John Cooper, and James Aldridge [ both survived the tragedy ], and the two children [ Nath