A schooner is ashore near Shrewsberry, and a sloop was bilged on Coney Island.
--American & Commercial Daily Advertiser, May 1, 1835
A schooner is ashore near Shrewsberry, and a sloop was bilged on Coney Island.
--Manufacturers and Farmers Journal - May 4, 1835
Deja vu. I don't know enough about old-timey ships to know if one of these papers just has much older news, or if ships really stayed stuck for several days. I'm kind of guessing both.
Charles Denson's Coney Island Lost and Found explains there were settlements on Coney Island (and Gravesend) well before 1835, but my admittedly less-than-comprehensive search of Google News didn't turn up anything.
Per Google, "The Sun" of Baltimore has a pay-for-view article from January 9, 1840, that supposedly mentions someone finding $1,000 in "hidden treasure" on Coney Island. There are a couple other pay-per-view articles dated 1840, too, but I doubt any are worth buying.
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