Betts, Alanson, from Norfolk, committed suicide in N.Y., Sept 6. (pub Sep 20, 1831)
(Source: Submitted by K Torp, National Intelligencer as pub. in the NGSQ, vol 55, No. 1, March 1967)
Lieut. Wm. T. Bourne was killed in a duel, near the Navy Yard at Gosport on Saturday the 4th inst., with another Lieutenant. The verdict of the Coroner’s Jury was that “the deceased came to his death by a pistol shot fired by Constantine Smith.” It is said that the deceased was the challenger. – Nat. Intel.
Republican Compiler (Gettysburg, Pennsylvania) March 15, 1826. Sub. by N. Piper
Boyd, John Q Adams, age 22, son of G.W. Boyd, formerly a midshipman in the U.S. Navy, died at Portsmouth VA., June 24, 1831 (pub July 4, 1831).
(Source: Submitted by K Torp, National Intelligencer as pub. in the NGSQ, vol 55, No. 1, March 1967) |
