we came upon a severly eroded marble headstone in which "publisher" and "Boston News" appeared to be inscribed. Upon finding the gravesite in the list, we found that a Francis Douglas should be buried in this spot. Francis Douglas (1783-1820) was a publisher who took over the Eastern Argus from William Willis in about 1809. According to an obituary from the Catskill Recorder (courtesy of Rootsweb) his end came on an island hunting excursion in "Casco Bay": "...Mr. D. seized the fowling piece by the muzzle for the purpose of drawing it towards him, when it went off and discharged its contents into his knee and fractured the bones very much on each side... such was the loss of blood..." that he died at age 37.
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we came upon a severly eroded marble headstone in which "publisher" and "Boston News" appeared to be inscribed. Upon finding the gravesite in the list, we found that a Francis Douglas should be buried in this spot. Francis Douglas (1783-1820) was a publisher who took over the Eastern Argus from William Willis in about 1809. According to an obituary from the Catskill Recorder (courtesy of Rootsweb) his end came on an island hunting excursion in "Casco Bay": "...Mr. D. seized the fowling piece by the muzzle for the purpose of drawing it towards him, when it went off and discharged its contents into his knee and fractured the bones very much on each side... such was the loss of blood..." that he died at age 37.
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