Portland gazette and Maine advertiser., 1811-11-11
From tie Bottom Gazette.
Melancholy )cene in the tlwn Of Brew-
fer, BarnRabs CO.

LNeI1hC00Ly JCeHe IN me tIiUn q BTeU-
fer, BarnRabe Co.
On the 10th ult. Capt. Ch;llings-
worth Fofer, aged about Al years,
departed this life F; on the fame day
Benz. Bangs, Efq of Harwich, with
one Mr.. Scotto Berry, of the fame
place, called at the hou(c of the de-
cealed, for payment of a fun of a.
bout one hundred and thirty dolls
due faid Bangs, and reqsefted the
father Of the deceafed to give him his
lecurity faid Bangs well knowing
the parent to be in low circumstan-
ces, and about feventy five years old
and the mother about the fame age.
The father refufed to comply, fla
ting his inability to anfwer 10 great
a demand, without fufering immedi
ate Giltrefs. The faid Bangs then
declared that if he did not comply, it
was in his power to arrsft the body
of the dccealed. The father fill
refufed, and Bangs left the houfe
and a mott diitehed one it was, this
being the latt fon, out of three, left
thefs aged parents, the other two
being lot at fea, or died abroad.
The Monday following was ap-
pointed TO have the deceased buried /;
when Col. Jonathan Snow appeared
as Sheriff, with a wit to fcrve on
the body, Here the melancholy
fcene commenced, as part Of the re-
lations being aAembled, with the a.
ged parents Convulied in forrow $
no one can paint their feelings but
thofe who have children, and are de-
MED them the right Of chriitian bu-
rial. - he ulual ceremonies on fuch
occaGOns were however performed,
and an appropriate prayer was deliv-
cred by the Rev. John oimpkins,
and the funeral proceiion formed
and proceeded with the corps about
one and half mile, and very near to
the fpot of the grave, when the faid
Sheriff arreited the coffin, without
any fervice on the body, and it was
fet down in the middle Of the high
way, nearly abrealt of faid Bangs's
dwelling houle, and forbid proceed
ing any further. a large company
who followed, with the mourners,
ioon after retired, and left the officer
in charge Of the body: After lying
in this iituatlon for lome time, one
Of the Grand Jurors ordered it out of
the high road this was complied
with 81 the lherif, BY placing it un-
der the window Of the iaid Bangs,
and about funfet itiH further into
fald Bangs's d&~lling houGe. BY
| this inhuman proceeding, the aged
parents were deprived of fleeing their
Iatt rand only fsn buried, togeth-
er with the widow and five children.
So di!trelling fcene never was wit
nefed in this place, and perhaps not
in the mott barbarous nations. Be
tween feven and eight o'clock the
fame evening, the body was buried
by few individuals, and by the con-
ient Of faid Benjamin Bangs, Eiq, af-
ter he had inflicted all The wounds
ne could on the feelings Of the poor
grey headed parents and their rsla-
tians. JOHN CROSBY.
ChriitoPhe emperor of Hayti)
had declared and keeps up an actual
blockade Of Port au Prince. He has
changed theroute Of many American
vehtlS TO Gonaives
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| ACCIDENT.
A; Mansfield, on Saturday the 5.h
ult. IS Miss Matilda Davis, aged IS
was washing yarn in small stream
four rods above a saw.mill, she fell into
the water, and was carried by the force
OF the current into the flume, her feet