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From: (Harry Dodsworth)
Subject: [TSL] Deaths at Sea reported in the Montreal Gazette, 1842
Date: Wed, 9 Oct 2002 20:15:30 -0400 (EDT)

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Deaths at sea were rarely listed in the death notices. The following
were from the Montreal Gazette, August 9, 1842 - two passengers who
died at sea and one mariner who died on land. This notice was a very
rare occurrence.

DIED
On the 26th June, on his passage to England, for the benefit of his
health, on board the ship Delta, William Charles Patton, eldest son
of Wm. Patton Esq., aged 18 years. His remains were interred in the
family vault at Plymouth.

At Quebec on the 2d instant, after a short illness, Captain Richard
Cook, aged 34, late of the bark Edward, of London, a native of Land's
End, near Whitby, Yorkshire.
[I think his home was at Sandsend not Land's End!]

At sea, on the 26th of June, on his passage to Liverpool, John, second
son of Mr. Thomas Hobbs, cabinet-maker, of Quebec, aged 19.

--
Harry Dodsworth Ottawa Ontario Canada
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