This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Gentry, Hains, Haines Classification: Lookup Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/oRB.2ACI/739.1 Message Board Post: Hi, There are many years of old newspapers archived at the Salem County courthouse, back to about 1813, with some gaps. The older ones have been microfilmed, so I checked with the clerk's archivist on your name. Apparently there is no account of the drowning, at least not in what they have there. Only a marriage for a Jedidiah Hains (sic) to Charlotte Gentry on March 2, 1819 shows up in the master computer index, (Marriage Book B p. 120). You might contact the Gloucester County Historical Society in Woodbury. See what they have...it could have shown up in another area paper still extant. Val