Hi Barbara. This is what I found: "On Tuesday morning between 5 and 6 o'clock the Coroners Inquest sat on the body of MR. DANIEL GOFFE (son of Mrs. Jane Goffe of this town), found dead near Major Fishbournes. Three persons have been charged with discharging a musket out a window of PLATT'S tavern. A respectable number of citizens attended him to the burying ground. (Gazette of the State of Georgia, 7/7/1785, 3:1)" That is all that is contained here. The next step would be to contact, or better yet, visit the Georgia Historical Society in Savannah. On microfilm there, they have all the old newspapers. "GSG" stands for 'Gazette of the State of GA', the newspaper. 7/7/1785 stands for the day of the issue from which was abstracted this piece. 3:1 stands for the column on the page, paragraph #1. On the original that I sent, there are many other references to articles. Apply the same formula to those numbers to the dates of issue, column and paragraph number, and you will have 'the rest of the story', not an abstraction. Does that make sense? If not, let me know and I'll try something else <big grin!> Carole ----- Original Message ----- From: <Sassy0236@aol.com> To: <gdrexel1@airmail.net> Sent: Monday, October 02, 2000 2:46 AM Subject: Early Deaths in Savannah GA > Hi Carole, > > Regarding the info you posted that was dated November 3 (William Platt found > guilty of murdering Daniel Goff). Is it possible you have the rest of this > story or can tell me how I might go about getting it? > > Thank you, > Barbara DuPre