Person Record

Metadata

Name

Garland, Stephen, 1828-1852

Born

Jul. 17, 1828

Birthplace

Durham, N.H.

Deceased

Apr. 10, 1852

Deceased where

Piscataqua River (drowned)

Places of residence

Durham, N.H. (buried in Lee, N.H.)

Father

James Garland.

Mother

Polly Mills.

Notes

"It seems that on Saturday afternoon, Elliot G. Burnham, Pilton Burnham, his son, with George Bunker, Edward Furness and Stephen Garland, left Durham in a small boat for Portsmouth, expecting to return on the same evening. They visited Portsmouth where the elder Burnham and Furness drank freely, and when they started to return, were somewhat intoxicated. The wind blew strongly, and the boat, deeply laden, made considerable water, and they went to shore once, a few miles this side of Portsmouth to bale it out. A man living near where they landed, saw them, and thinking there was danger of their swamping before they reached home, endeavored to prevail upon them to remain, or go home by land, but without success. This is the last that was seen of them."

~From a scrapbook compiled by Mary P. Thompson, Durham, N.H.; Transcribed into a notebook of Marion Furness Bixby, ca. 1960.

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