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What was the name of Asa Priest's wife and children?
He was listed with the Northern New York Patriots...
Asa Priest--listed as age 45yrs and pob MA, after his trial at the Battle of
Windmill in 1840.
He died aboard the HMS Buffalo while being transported to Van Dieman's Land
(Tasmania)
Information written in 1847 by Robert Marsh,.
He was taken on deck and laid on the main hatch, some strong thick canvass
was sewed tight round his body, with two 18 pound shot in the sack at his
feet. About twenty-five of us were called on deck, the funeral service read
by the first Lieutenant of the ship, and the corpse was raised on a board by
four men laying one end on the ships side, the other raised up till he slid
off feet foremost and soon disappeared. We could not mourn for one we felt
sure had bid adieu to a life of suffering, and whose spirit had returned to
God who gave it.
He was a very quiet social man who left a wife and three children.
Asa Priest was the only one out of our party that died on our passage, but a
great number of us were sick.
Your help would be greatly appreciated...
Bonnie Shafer
Research for the Patriots 1837 - 1841