Abbreviations used
Date October 10 1862
County Saint John
Place Saint John
Newspaper The Daily Telegraph
The language of the text is the original used in the newspaper entry and as transcribed by Daniel F. Johnson. Records acquired by the Provincial Archives are not translated from the language in which they originate.
Thursday afternoon, age 16, Henry s/o Joseph RICHARDSON of Wood Point (West. Co.) a few miles below Sackville, while rounding a fishing schooner into a creek in sight of his residence, was struck by the boom, knocked overboard and drowned. The mother of the young man was standing in the door at the time and witnessed the sad fate of her son.