Lancaster gazette. [volume] (Lancaster, Mass.) 1828-1830, 1828-08-26
DIED.


In Sterling, Elizabeth Roper,aged 2l.
In Hubbardston, on the 10th inst, William
Pollard, aged 81.
In Berlin, on the 1lth inst Mr;.,o ,,,to,iou
aged 81. y t-ee'e''
IL tiaeon Israeli sfBh HEs q sEea &c. 'aSa 81
Ia hittieton; forestus Darwin, son of DR. Paul
kttridge, aged IL.
In Stow, Betsey Wetherbee, aged As.
In Lexington, Amos Lock, aged SO ; one of the
remaining few who met the British troops on the
plains of Lexington. r
In Waltham, Lucy Lyman, wife of Russell stur.
gis, OF Boston, aged %.
Me. GAY
In Westminster. Ezekiel Flint, aged So:
In Iempleton, LIST inst, Samuel Cutting aged 46.
In Jaffrey, 18th inst aftera long illness of fourteen
years. during which she not able to turn herself
IN bed, fabitha, the wife of Joel Wright. aged TO-
aged 76. 0f''O''''
In Royalton on the Gath ult, Philip Boyce, aged
In Hancock, Lydia Hartwell Whitcomb, wife of
John Whitconb -
In Mortified Joseph R, Field, candidate preach.
er OF the gospel, aged SO.
In Salem, Rebecca Pickering, wife Of Tmotbv
Pickering, aged IA.
In Providence; Rev SteAhen Gano. aged S. for
neatly So years pastor Of the first Baptist Church in
that town
In London, Dougald Stewart, ESQ, author Of the
Mind '-'0 "'''''
An inquest was held at the Jail in Boston. on
tuesday last, on the body of Joseph Gee foreigner
VINO was committed by order of the Police Court on
the 18th inst, as lunatck. Verdict of the jury
that he came to his death by hanging himself. in
state of mental arrangement. with a,strin of tow
cloth, which he twisted and fastened to a window
sash. He lately arrived at Boston from Manchester
Eng, and has left wife and six children
. A family, named Clark, consisting of the father,
mother, and two boys died between the first and
fourth OF August at Union-Town, Pa. physician,
aftE examining one ofthe bodies declared the death
to be occasioned by mineral poison, and it was con-
tanned in supper of mushNpd milk, that being the
last food OF which they all partook. child of about
nine months of age IS the only survivor Of the FAM
liz; =" g = p. -.
The body Of Melancthon w Butler was found on
Thursday the 18th inst, in White Pond Marlboro
me deceased had been missing about two weeks,
and from the appearance of the body it is supposed
that it had been in the pond during that time 1t is
SAID domestick trouble led him to commit the deed
OF suicide. Previous to his death he had been en-
ployed in the Holston Factory
'PSotIDENcE, AUG. 90. The bodies of the two
lads whose absence has been for the last four weeks
deplored by their mothers, were discovered yesterday
by some persons who were digging sand from the hill
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They were found buried with their clothes on The
bodies were in state of rapid decay. The heads
fell from them while the DISCOVERIES were disner-
ring them. Their SOULS appeared to be- fractured,
and s6ue of those who exanined,ths bodies were of
opinion that they must have been dead some days
before they were buried From the state Of the
ground where they were found, it is scarcely posi-
BILE they could have been buried from the falling in
ofthe earti, and the impression is irresistible that
they must have been murdered. Verdict ofthe Jury,
cause; of death unknown.
A man whose name we did not learn was killed in
Johnston, on Saturday last while engaged in getting
out stone from the building. A fragment of rock on
which he stood, gave way and, he was precipated
from height Of thirty feet, part of the rock falling
on his head.-PGtri0t.
ACCIDENT. On Tuesday of last week, while a
number of young men were bathing in mill pond,
in the town of York, in this county, one Of them,
named Henry Cooley, aged about II, in the act of
diving, hit his head against log which was con-
cealed under the water, and SO much injured the
spine of his neck to cause hia death in sbut So
hours.-Liringston Journal.