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NORTH KINGSTOWN -- The police confirmed this afternoon that they recovered the body of a 60-year-old Warwick man who went fishing yesterday at Carr Pond and didn't return home.

Authorities had been searching for Pierre Terry since yesterday. Just before 9 a.m. today, North Kingstown police Chief Charles Brennan drove into a parking lot near the Gilbert Stuart Birthplace museum and told Terry's wife and daughter that they believed they had recovered his body.

Brennan said authorities had based that on the body's clothing -- a tank top and a bracelet. Authorities brought the family out to positively identify the body.

The body was found off a Girl Scout camp on the pond, which is located behind the Gilbert Stuart Birthplace historic site.

Family members were at the pond at about 4 a.m. this morning. Many said they just could not sleep.

Terry's boat, a 14-foot bass fishing boat, was found in the pond behind the museum dedicated to the Colonial-era portrait painter yesterday afternoon.

Police and state Department of Environmental Management officials searched the pond until about 8:30 p.m. before resuming the search this morning.

Family members said yesterday that Terry knew the area and pond well -- "he's been fishing here most of his life," one said -- but that he could not swim.

He was described as a disabled Vietnam War veteran, with nerve damage, by his son, Matthew Terry of North Kingstown, who said he and his father have recently been fishing on the pond every Sunday.

See a satellite view of the area.

-- projo.com staff writer Brandie M. Jefferson, with reports from Journal staff writer Paul Davis

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