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On board he had one crewman, Joseph LaPlante, and had also brought along his bride of only a couple of months, Lucy Whitney. Local residents can verify that it can get awfully cold in December on the lake, and winter storms during that time are not uncommon.
Probably anxious to make a living for his new family, especially with winter- and therefore no shipping activity - on the horizon, the young Captain may have felt it was worth the risk. Storms can pop up very quickly on the lake at any time during the year and such was the case on that fateful day.
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The broad section of Lake Champlain can see some pretty severe wave action during a storm. That, coupled with the freezing temps, hampered all sailing conditions, icing over sails, riggings and steering mechanisms. It was speculated that the Sarah Ellen may have sprung a plank with such heavy cargo, or took water over the bow; regardless she began to sink.
The three people aboard the Sarah Ellen struggled to free the lifeboat that was covered with ice and managed to get it in the water, but remained clinging to it, not inside, as the Daniel Webster attempted to come about for a rescue. Keep in mind these boats had no motors, nor any brakes. When the companion schooner reached the lifeboat they managed to pull LaPlante aboard, but the impact against the lifeboat coming alongside knocked the Captain and his bride free into the water.
The Daniel Webster made another attempt, but the couple disappeared into the freezing water of Lake Champlain before they were able to be rescued. Many are convinced this was the work of the jealous Champlain Witch, else why would the crewman be saved while the young couple perished? They tell us it is in incredible preserved condition due to the cold water at this depth as well as the absence of any light.
Watch for the Lois McClure as she often visits our Lake Champlain Region ports allowing you to step onboard and see what life was like on a canal schooner. Brave, certified, divers can register annually to visit these preserve sites, but are warned to treat them with respect. Remember, many of these are gravesites and may be continued to be haunted by the Champlain Witch. Clark ; William Franklin b 14 July , d. He married 22 Dec to Jane M.
He was a veteran of the War of Ripley led a desperate charge against a British battery, stationed on a hill which commanded the battlefield. After the war, for reasons not apparent, he lived the life of a hermit in the little old huts about Milford and Amherst NH, and on land that was within the limits of Monson.
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Scoby was an ardent Democrat of the Jacksonian school, a subscriber and reader of the Nashua Gazette. He had two sons, one of whom lived in Lawrence MA, who it was reported paid his last sickness bills and funeral charges. Addison Scoby one of them, and also? William and Mary J. Wood, ; var pages 2. Spaulding, Telegraph Press, ; page 3. Would a resident of New Boston home adjacent to the Francestown line be permitted to paddle his kayak on Haunted Lake? Or is the town beach reserved exclusively for Francestownians? Never have I ever heard of a haunting at the haunted pond where the boy got kill by his best friend and then a few weeks later a boy drown with his fist closed with water lilies.
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Posted on 16 October, by Janice Brown. Facebook Twitter Email Print Pocket. This entry was posted in Haunted New Hampshire. She prefers trying out for every club and activity that she can find. Despite all our differences, we are still as close as sisters, maybe even closer. We quickly became inseparable. We have horror movie marathons together, we do plays and mock trial together, we go out for drives together…once, we even got lost and ended up in Iowa together.
Although I usually hate sports, I never get tired of swimming. The feeling of gliding effortlessly through the water, twisting and contorting my body as I speed through the blue depths, is like bursting out of a cage, free, unbound. Fortunately for us, we live in the land of ten thousand lakes aka Minnesota. Although I live in a rather small town in Minnesota, we have a sizeable national park just a few miles away.