Raleigh, N.C., Oct 4
Fatal Accident
On Thursday last, as Mrs. Newsom, a respectable woman, was on her way to this place, accompanied by her daughter in the chair with herself and a son on horseback, the animal she was driving, took fright.  The daughter jumped from the chair without injury, but in a like attempt Mrs. Newsom’s foot caught between the seat and the shaft.  In this condition she was dragged nearly a half a mile, her head sometimes under and sometimes by the side of the wheel.  The horse was stopped at the house of Mr. Simms, about five mile north of this place, when the lady was found to be quite dead, having both her legs and arms broke, and her head shockingly bruised.
Source: The Centinel, Gettysburg, PA October 31, 1810. Contributed by Nancy Piper