A follow up to Tuesday's post.
A local Newburyport, Massachusetts, newspaper reported young master Wood's death as follows:
"In the midst of the rejoicing for peace, we regret that it is our painful duty to record one circumstance which very much dampened the general joy.
"George Augustus, the eldest son of Mr. John Wood, aged 9 years, was unfortunately, and instantaneously, killed by a gun carriage passing over him, on State Street, on which there was an 18-pound cannon.
"All sympathy with the afflicted parents in this sudden and difficult event."
The eighteen-pound cannon refers to the weight of the shell/cannonball it fired.
--Brock-Perry
2012 marks the 200th anniversary of America's "Forgotten War," the War of 1812 that took place over three years, 1812 to 1815.
Battle of New Orleans.
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