Lost Souls
Records are not clear, listing somewhere between 20 and 39 passengers aboard Speedy, along with her crew of 6. It may never be known exactly how many were killed in the sinking. Those lost included:
- Lieutenant Thomas Paxton, Captain of HMS Speedy
- John Cameron, Speedy crew member
- Francis Labard, Speedy crew member
- Ogetonicut, accused murderer
- Angus Macdonell, defense lawyer and member of the Upper Canada House of Assembly
- George Cowan, Coldwater-based fur trader and interpreter employed by the government's Indian Department
- Justice Thomas Cochran, the trial judge, Judge of the Court of King's Bench of Upper Canada
- Robert Isaac Dey Grey, prosecutor and the first Solicitor-General of Upper Canada
- Simon Baker, servant of Dey Grey
- John Anderson, law student
- John Stegman, land surveyor of the Surveyor-General's Office, possible trial witness
- James Ruggles, Justice of the Peace, possible trial witness
- Two or three unnamed First Nations men and women, trial witnesses
- John Fisk, High Constable of York, first Canadian police officer killed in the line of duty in the Ontario, Canada area
- Jacob Herchmer, prominent Loyalist merchant and fur trader, Lieutenant in York Militia
- Two young children, sent on the "safer" Speedy by overland-travelling parents who could not afford passage for themselves
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