Abbreviations used
Date July 31 1869
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.
A seafaring man named Edward BUCK belonging to "Anna Lindsay" s/o Capt. James BUCK of Dorchester (West. Co.) was drowned at Hopewell Cape, Thursday. The deceased jumped from a vessel into a boat which capsized and filled, throwing him into the water, in which he sank and did not rise again to the surface. - Moncton 'Times'