The Lovett Peacock

LOWELL, District Judge.

On the afternoon of the twenty-first day of January, 1867, the bark Flora Southard, proceeding in ballast from Boston to Philadelphia, and having on board most of the supplies necessary for the voyage to Rio de Janeiro, which she had agreed to undertake from Philadelphia, and valued with her stores at about thirty thousand dollars, fell in with the schooner Lovett Peacock, in distress, in latitude 37° 15’ N. and longitude 70° 30’ W., some three hundred miles from any land. The schooner had a signal flying, and as the vessels came within hail, her master said he was…