On
Monday, Oct. 30th, news reached the village that James Crockett, mate of
the schooner Rounds, which was bound from Buffalo to Toledo laden with
coal was drowned fifteen miles south east of Rondeau.
He was in the
yawl boat with a companion named Mackenzie putting a reef in the the
mizzen when the eyebolt pulled out of the yawl boat and let them both into
the water. Life preservers were thrown and the schooner rounded to,
but neither of the men could be seen.
Jas. Crockett was a married
man, and had several children. He was a son of Jas. Crockett of this
village, and he was here for some time with his family last winter.
He was well known to all the sailors along this shore. -- Port Rowan News.
