Lancaster gazette. [volume] (Lancaster, Mass.) 1828-1830, 1828-04-08
DIED..

In Bolton, Susan Bond, wife of Isaac Bond, O
Portland, and daughter of Jonathan Whitcomb, o
Bolton
In Lunenburg, on the Goth ult. Jonas Billings.
In Worcester, Martha Lincoln, relict of late Hon
Levi Lincoln, aged &C.
In Boston, Thomas Eustis, aged Sc. Louisa l.
Sewall, wife of Benjamin Sewall aged 49, Deborah
Lyme, aged SO. Lemuel A. Porter, aged 10 months
IN Salem, John Wyman, aged &c years, a native OF
hamburg. Daniel Walden, aged 40. William
Ropes. aged TO- Archelaus Fuller, aged 49,
". Mary Paine
In Ipswich, Hannah, wife of Eben. Burnham
In Hatfield, Rev. Joseph Lyman, d. d. aged 70.
In Longmeadow, Levi Caldwell, aged 81.
In WIlllstown, Feb 18, very suddenly, Rev. Ard
Hoyt, Missionary Of the American Board
In Hancock, N. Fl. DR.. Peter futile, ofPrinceton.
aged Al.
In Newmarket, Elizabeth, wife of Mr.. James G.
Page, aged g., late of Exeter Miranda w. s. Par
ker, aged 3d. wife of A. A. Parker, ESQ. Attorney at
law, and daughter of the Rev. DR.. Sanders of Med
field.
In Rope Village, Griswold, Conn., Mr.. Joseph Ba-
con, formerly of Smith6eld in the 18th year of his
age. While stepping over the shaft of water
wheel his foot slipped, and he fell between the arms
OF the wheel, which being in motion, his body was
drawn through space of 5 or inches between the
wheel and the wall on which the shaft rests; he
died on Thursday morning
III OoSHcii, ~ L. MIL john fOpplnO, aged lUU
years, 10 months, and 10 days
In Richmond, Virginia, by suicide, Jerman Baker,
Esq, Treasurer Of the Commonwealth This la
mentable instance of selfdestructon excited the ut
most agitation at Richmond
In Peterborough, IN. CO. Winship Stedman, aged
6l native of Connecticut.
In Scotland, Col. Macdonald, the celebrated Chief
Glengary. His funeral was attended at Invergarry
by an immense concourse of clansmen from all parts
OF the country, and agreeaby to custom such oc-
casons the head-men to the number of $50 sat down
to dinner, while about 1900 others were plentifully
RECALLED with bread, cheese and whiskey. The dis
lance the procession moved was five miles, in an un-
commonly tempestuous day; those on foot having to
pass through swollen burn, the water reaching
above their knees. The Chief Mourner was the
young Glengary, who dressed in the full garb of
his ancestors, with an eagle feather in his bonnet,
covered with Grape supported by his maternal unces
Lord Mcdwyn and Col. Macdonald of the guards
Notwithstanding the severity of the weather, none
of the usual solemnities were omitted the mourn
ul pbroch was walled forth by the ppers for three
hours. None of the scenes Of drunkenness and quar-
relling which have disgraced similar occasions in
the Highlands occurred at the interment of this
great Chief.
young man, son of Mr.. Ambrose Dudley of
Norfolk, was shot few days ago, by the accidental
discharge of his gun He was removing some hay
IN cait, and laid his gun (which he lad taken with
hm to shoot game on the road) upon the top of the
load of hay, with the muzzle directed to the rear
and walking behind the cart, while little boy drove
the horse, the gun accidentally went off, and lodged
its contents, heavy load Of duck shot in his throat
and breast, which instantly terminated his existence
A little son of Col VIM. Anderson, Of Buncombe
County, N. G., aged about years, was drowned
a short time since, in attempting to cross Big Ivy
river: The little innocent, accompanied by his sis
ter or years DID, attempted to the river on
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lodged on rock after floating down about 80 yards
the body was swept down by the current near a
mile, where he was found dead, about an hour after
wards, lodged against some drif-wood.
lad in N. York, while flying kite in the street.
on Friday last, ran backwards directly under the
wheels of a cart, and was crushed to DEATH
On Wednesday morning, in sudden souall. a
sloop overset in the North river, and Miss Rachel
freeiand, young lady, was drowned in the cabin
She was going to neighbouring town to attend a
wedding, which was to have taken place that eve
ming.