On Monday last, John Paton, a youth, 14 years of age, and the son of a poor old fisher in Usan, was unfortunately lost at sea, about four miles off that village. He went, in company with his brother and three pilots, to bring back the boat, after putting the men on board of different vessels bound for Montrose; and had left the last man on board of a smack, and just swung away with a rope fast to the vessel, when the boat was suddenly pulled to one side, filled with water, and the young man was thus plunged into a watery grave, as no assistance could be rendered him, from the velocity with which the vessel was sailing. The elder brother was saved by promptly lashing himself to the boat.
Published in the Aberdeen Journal, Wednesday 24th March 1819.
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