Rhode Island June 27th (1712). "An Indian servant man belonging to Mr. Giles Slocum of Portsmouth carry'd out to sea in a canoo(canoe) two of his masters sons, one of ten the other of nine years old, whom he kill'd and drown'd, and being examin'd before the Authority confesed that he knocked the eldest child in the head with the padle, and seeing the younger crying, he designedly oversett the canoo, and swam ashore himself, who is now in Irons in close/clofe? prison till he is try'd for his murder." Source: Boston News Letter Located on NEHGS site for old newspapers. I have written Barb to see if she knows of the gravesites for these two young boys. Such a pitiful story. Mary Jo Mary Jo