Reported as a small passage from a Maritime magazine which was taken from the Royal gazette Monday 30 July 1792 edition. "On July 13, 1792 a man was taken from the Vernon River Settlement and lodged in the public jail charged with having committed a rape on the body of a young girl of that place." The man was Joseph Farrow and he was accused of raping a girl who was between 12 and 13 years old while a "small boy of 17 (was) eyewitness to the whole transaction." Joseph pleaded innocent and may have had a better ending if he had waited peacefully in jail as a petition was being passed around on his half. Not knowing this he tried to escape and was captured and had the dubious honour of being the first man ever hung on Prince Edward Island. One angle is that since he was a former Revolutionary soldier he may just have been in the wrong place at the wrong time.

1. 2. Ada FARROW   b. 16 Sep 1787, Broadbay, Lincoln County, Maine; d. 4 Mar 1859, Central Bedeque, Prince Edward Island.
2. 3. Benjamin FARROW   b. 10 Aug 1789, Broadbay, Lincoln County, Maine; d. 11 Dec 1852, DeSable, Prince Edward Island.
3. 4. John Partridge FARROW   b. 29 Mar 1792, Broadbay, Lincoln County, Maine.

Are the two Mary's the same person?

He died at sea.