Gazette Of The United States And Daily Evening Advertiser

NORTHAMPTON, Jan. 21.
Canandaigua, Dec. 24, 1794.
MR. BUTLER,
I am desired to request you to give
the following melancholy event, which
happened in this town, on the 20th inst.
a place in your paper:—Two men
were instantly killed by the falling of a
tree which turned up by the roots, as
they were travelling on horseback, near
the court house in this town—the tree
was observed to fall by a man standing
at about eighty yards distant, he did
not see the unfortunate persons pass but
within a minute or two observed a horse
striving to get up, and ran to the place
when to his surprize found the two men
and one horse dead and the other wounded.
An inquest was immediately summoned to examine the bodies of the men
which were unknown to any one present
but from the papers found with them,
and from information afterwards received
from Mr. John Morgan, and Dr.
Stiles, of this county, we find that the
names, of the persons were Thomas Mighells, of Conway, and Cyrus Everitt,
formerly of Foxborough, Mass. and that
Mr. Mighells, had that day set out to
return to his family, a wife and nine
children—and that Mr. Everitt had been
living about three years in Niagara—
and was on his way to Foxborough
where he supposed his parents were living.
Mr. Mighells received a blow
on his head which broke his skull, and
his brains were thrown out upon his horse's neck—his thigh broke in two places, and his body very much bruised.
Mr. Everett had his back broken in
two places—and his shoulder badly
broken—their remains were decently interred in the burying ground in Canandaigua, on the 22d inst.
An Inventory was taken by the Jurors, of the effects found with Mr.
Mighells and Mr. Everitt, and the property, of which are some valuable papers, deposited with Phinehas Bates,
Esq. of Canandaigua, where the surviving friends of these unfortunate sufferers may apply for the same.