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The New Hampshire Gazette And General Advertiser
Portsmouth, Exeter, Rockingham County, New Hampshire
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In New York, the body of Daniel M'Kenney, a former wealthy East Florida resident who arrived with the British evacuation of Charlestown, was found at Cruger's wharf last Tuesday. Once prosperous, he had fallen into poverty, labored for subsistence, and showed signs of insanity, leading to conjectured suicide.
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Last Tuesday the corpse of a man, said to be Daniel M'Kenney, formerly of East Florida, then of considerable property, who came here with the British, at the evacuation of Charlestown, was taken up at Cruger's wharf. It is mentioned of him, that he had got so much reduced, as to oblige him to labour along shore to procure a canty subsistence; the reflection of which was so poignant, having seen days when Dame Fortune showered down her choicest blessings on him, that he often exhibited omens of insanity, in a fit of which, it is conjectured, he made an end of his life.
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New York
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Last Tuesday
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body discovered; conjectured suicide due to insanity
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The corpse of Daniel M'Kenney, formerly of considerable property in East Florida and who came to New York with the British at the evacuation of Charlestown, was taken up at Cruger's wharf. He had become so reduced that he labored along shore for subsistence, and the poignant reflection on his past fortune led to omens of insanity, in a fit of which he is conjectured to have ended his life.