Abbreviations used
Date May 13 1876
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.
On Sunday morn., 30th April, Simon MARTIN, Jr. and his son, age 14, residents of Violette Brook, near the boundary line between Maine and N.B. left their sugar camp in Cyr Plantation, Aroostock Co., Maine to serach for a 'surgarie'. ... The two neither had matches nor provisions and must have died during their first night in the woods. Mr. M. leaves a widow and seven children. (see original)