"Hawkesbury, April 4.
Accounts were received on Thursday of the death of John Chapman Morris and William Green, the former a settler and the latter a carpenter; who were drowned owing to a small boat upsetting in which they were rowing about the River in hopes of discerning some of their own and their neighbours lost property that might have sunk.--Several persons who were spectators of their toil anxiously enquired if they could swim, as no confidence could be placed in their wretched vehicle;--to which, in the event they owed their untimely dissolution."

"Last Sunday fe'nnight the remains of the late unfortunate William Green and John Chapman Morris were interred at the Green Hills. The body of the latter was found the preceding evening near the spot he went down at, clinging to the branch that had occasioned the disaster which had terminated in his death:—the body of Green was on Sunday morning found by his brother near the same spot, whither he was led by a strong supposítion that they might not have been separated to any very considerable distance."

Source(s):

• NLA Australian Newspapers, The Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser, Sunday 6 April 1806, p.2, http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article627070
• NLA Australian Newspapers, The Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser, Sunday 13 April 1806, p.2, http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article627080