This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: DALY, NORWOOD, CALL, POWERS Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/XcB.2ACE/291 Message Board Post: Hi,I'm trying to find more information on the possible James DALY murder in Exeter, Washington County, RI, in 1768. Do you have access to the GAZETTEER or newspaper accounts in Rhode Island in the 1700's to help in researching? Also, who is father of David Daly Esq. born Dec. 4, 1767, in Windham, VT, James or David Daly?Thanks for your help,Jan Jordan in Northern VermontI received the rest of this from Margaret; her cousin, Stewart Riley III, wrote quoted data in 1950s: On the David Daly Esq page: "Father or grandfather was born at sea, his father buried at sea, mother died soon after landing." "At Boston, orphan boy raised in protestant orphanage. family came from South | Ireland. (these first two sentences were family stories and distant cousins on my side had also heard this." "Orphan became peddler and was murdered for his money and his pack of linens. Body was found buried in field and identified by double teeth in front. " Then on another page of a pedigree ch! art for Frederick Trenk Daly he has as his father David Daly Esq, (Jr) b 1767) and that David's father as David Daly married, one son, travelling merchant murdered by a thief - Mrs. Eugene Martin for Info., Town Clerk Pittsfield, VT.  ____________ But he wasn't the only one who had the info re someone being murdered; Bob Dean who also had that. And George Mustain who had the Rhode Island death for James. My cousin had no James at all as he thought David Daly Esq.'s father was David Daly.