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Date May 7 1833
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.
d. This morn., launching of barque "William" from building yard of William ABRAMS, Esq., little before 7 o'clock vessel slipped slowly and smoothly down into the clement beneath swoln to receive her amid the cheers of assembled spectators While engaged hatily in preparing to discharge a cannon, George SCOTT who must have been stooping at the cannon's mouth when it went off had his head severed from his body. Left wife, family. Inquest held before James Wright,Esq. coroner. Verdict: shot himself in a fit of madness to which he was subject.