Abbreviations used
Date February 7 1857
County Saint John
Place Saint John
Newspaper New Brunswick Courier
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.
Lost overboard from ship "Elizabeth Ann Bright", Olive, master, on passage from Liverpool to this port, John LEWIS, seaman of Maidstone, England. There was a heavy sea at the time and a boat was lost in endeavouring to save him.