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..."John Ross was the son of Alexander Ross and came with two brothers to Chebeague where they settled. "
"Stone Sloops of Chebeague" (1949), chart pp. 110 &132. The chart notes: "he with his sons John & Walter, shipwecked on Graves Ledges off Boston Harbor - frozen in the rigging."
Another slightly more detailed account states:
"In another tragedy in the winter sea, ocean spray froze on the masts and decks of a Chebeague Stone Sloop outside Boston Harbor. Tons of ice weighed her down till she became helpless in the breaking, freezing seas. Capt. John Ross and his two sons, John and Walter, were found aboard, frozen to death and encased in ice, on the rigging."
His widow was living with her son-in-law at the time of the 1860 census, so John was presumably dead by then.