Monday, November 1, 2021

Henry Mundy and the Wood Duck

Henry Mundy who died in 1827 is one of my end-of-line ancestors (see X00239). I don't know a whole lot about him at this point. Most of what I do know comes from a few individual news articles.

The first one is from July of 1827 and describes a narrow escape as well as establishing Henry Mundy as the captain of the Wood Duck, a two-masted schooner.



Another article, from a few months later, on October 15, 1827 describes his death (as well as a man named Monroe) in the Niagara River due to the upsetting of the Wood Duck.


Definitely some interesting stories and it does give some details on how and when he died. But there's not much else to find about him. He married Ann Sidney Taylor on 12 March 1827, and she would have been pregnant with her first child when Henry died in October of 1827. Unfortunately I don't know a whole lot else about him at this point.

No comments:

Post a Comment