1675. May. [May 4th, see NEHGR 7:206] Mr. Freak, Capt. Scarlett of Boston were killed by ye blowing up ye deck of a ship by ye Carlessnesse of some aboard. There were diverse others that wr very dangerously wounded and some of [them] after dyed.
↑ Mahler, Leslie. The English Ancesrry of John Freake of Boston, Massachusetts, in The American Genealogist (TAG). (Donald Lines Jacobus, et.al.) 86:265.