Abbreviations used
Date June 1 1841
County Northumberland
Place Chatham
Newspaper The Gleaner and Northumberland Schediasma
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.
At Bathurst, Gloucester Co., Tuesday morning 18th inst., Frederick SUTHERLAND, a Branch Pilot belonging to that Port and two boys named Joseph DOUCET and Joseph CHAMBERLAIN in attempting to board a vessel off the bar, were unfortunately drowned. It is supposed that the boat on which they were on, had swamped immediately outside the Bar, and that all of them had been thrown out. The bodies of Mr. SUTHERLAND and Joseph CHAMBERLAIN have been found Wednesday. Mr. SUTHERLAND left a widow and three young children.