A new article has been added at Newspaper Abstracts > United States > New York > New York http://www.newspaperabstracts.com/index.php?action=displaycat&catid=708 Also visit our new sister sites: http://www.AncestorsOnTheWeb.com http://www.Genealogy101.com Direct link to article: http://www.newspaperabstracts.com/link.php?id=44192 Submitted by: SandyGen Article Title: New York Daily Times Article Date: October 3 1851 Article Description: Fatal Accident Accient To A Seaman Death of Charles Pierce Death of a Revolutionary Soldier Article Text: Friday October 3, 1851, The New York Daily News The cornor was called yesterday to hold an inquest of William A. Moore, 19 Mulberry Street, who met with a fatal accident on Saturday last. He was going on board the steamboat "Knickenbacker" andlost his footing fell overboard and drowned., He left a family. ******************************************* About 10:00 a.m. Yesterday a silor, Frderick Blanche was engaged, with others in discharging a cargo of millstones from the brig "Catherine Augusta, lyng at pier number 8 on the East River, one of them fell from the hooks and crushed his left leg beneath it, the bones of which were shattered to such an extent that is is feared the limb will ultimately have to be amputated. The injured man was taken to the Marine department of the New York Hospital, and placed under the medical attention of Dr. Leroy. *************************************** A man by the name of Doran, a mason, while at work on a building in Hicks Street, Tuesday evening fell from the second story to the ground breaking both thighs and receiving other severe injuries. He was taken to the City hospital and and died during the nite. *************************************** The venerable founder of The Portsmouth Oracle, from which The Portsmouth Journal numbers in volumes died at Byberry, near Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He died on September 23, 1851, age 81 years. Mr Pierce was an apprentice for several years to John Melcher (who died last year at the age of 91) and closed his apprenticehsip with Major B. Russell of Boston, Massachusettes. In May 1793 he commenced the publication of The Oracle, which was issued semi-weekly on Wednesdays and Saturdays, for three years, it ws then enlarged and publlished weekly. He continued its publication until July 1, 1801, as he stated in the transfer "owing to an impaired state of health and the excessive fatigue unavoidaby attendant on the publication of newspapers he sold the establishment to Mr Treadwell and Company. He continued the business of book selling and publishing in Portsmouth with much success unti the year 1813, when he removed to Pennsylvania, and has spent most of the time since at Germantown. *************************************** The Cleveland Plain Dealer chronicles the departure from this world, of another of the old soldiers of the Revolution, Moses Warren, of warrensville, Ohio. He was in his 92 year, having been born in 1760-fifteen years before the commencement of the Revolutionary War. At age 5 he was by the hand of death, deprived of the protectiion and support of his father, which involved him in the disabilities too common to such privations. At age 16 he became a soldier for six months; at the expiration of which he ws discharged, without pay and 300 miles from home, and not one cent in his pocket, nor any passport or dependence for getting home, save only his military equipage. ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ NY-Old-News ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ NewspaperAbstracts.com - Finding our ancestors in the news! TM http://www.NewspaperAbstracts.com