M Latham Witness ... says that ... he heard loud calls apparently from party a distance opposite Mr McKees Sawmill ^on Broad River and on [?] to the place found several negroes had been thrown out of their boat and had got in the rocks. In the darkness of the night he could see the figure of what he considered a man who hailed [?] several times but the River being very full and no boat at hand could render no assistance. By the [?] dawn of day He saw the boy call Tom taken from the rock Situated some 150 yards in the River. The boy on being brought to land not with standing[?] every[?] exertion to resentate[?] him was found to be dead