Globe, 26 June 1812.

Sunday morning, the following unfortunate accident happened on the Medway as Mr. Edward Finch, landlord of the "Post Boy," Public House, Rochester, with his three sons, were proceeding up the river for Whorn's Place, in a peterboat, a sudden squall of wind came on and overset the same, when, melancholy to relate, they were all drowned.

One of his son's swam within 10 rods of the shore before his strength failed him, and he sunk; another's body, which being the only one taken out, was found under the deck of the boat. Mr. Finche's large knife was also found in the boat, which it is supposed he had taken out to cut away the main sheet, but too late to effectuate the purpose.