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jnd Don civc met I by *d with int-i of cel-i astar-teat *ho I n-ap-has kenrva-th«thise.*, it rtyj f of i«rc-r8'yourmi-it is pie-both ppi-thc-In-tieiftionUWh»ch\Veho-h»sImi-i the here your blcf-Go-) his it ion ched :rent ap-25*laftthetheudi-theing-tous for ibel, fuf- be ars,ana reipecicu duiuau, auu a- ^griculture, manufaures and commerce.Laft Friday evening, about a quarter paft feven o’clock, a moft dreadful Fire ^broke out in the South part of Bofton, Aeiwhich continued, with increafing fury, ™oj nearly three hours, until it had deftroy- the, ed about 70 dwelling-houfes, beftdes upothe Rev. Mr. Wight’s Meeting-houfe, a tonnumber of Shops, Barns, tec. and a ara great quantity of Merchandife, as well tpa as tioufehold Furniture, confiderable Qepart of which had been removed to places of fuppofed fafety, but notwithftand-ing was deftroyed by that devouring element in its rapid progrefs.—But what ^ is more dreadful to relate is, that the M diftrefled inhabitants fufFered very much from fome of the moft abandoned of the human race, who feized every opportu -nity for ftealing as much as they could A of their fmall pittance which efcaped „the flames, fome of whom were detea-ed in the very aft, and fent to prifon, fwhere ’tis to be hoped they will meet Qthe reward juftly due for their attroci- ,ous villainy—It is find that an embar- Qgo is alfo laid on all veflels in the har- , hour for a few days, until they can be . fearched, in confequence of Goods be- I longing to the fufferers having been dil- — covered on board fome of them. Ac-cording to the direion of the wind Xwhen the fire firft broke out, it appeared probable that all the houfes as far as the neck muft have been deftroyed, but P it foon ftiifting a little to the N. E. it on jcrefled that part of the town, deftroy- ncing all the buildings for upwards of 20 F*rods in width towards the Common, r;,making a tremendous blaze, which could ty plainly be perceived at the diftance of p{more thin *50 miles. This calamity *began in a Malt-houfe belonging to Mr. .William Patten, near Liberty-Pole and .extended to Mr. Ofborn’s Paint-Shop. *The town received the alflftance of the Nt towns of Roxbury, Dorchefter, Milton, Sh Cambridge and Medford, with their en- Et gines, and that from Cambridge was 77 conveyed to the fpot, (6 miles) in thirty minutes.The following h a lift of the name.i of all the fuf- -ftrers -which have yet come to hand, fome of whom «were owners of more than one hovfe*Mr*. Inches, Jefkssa Hen (haw, fcfq. Mn. atme* ry, the Mif* Joksnnett, Mr. Jofiab Ka.p, Dm. »Daniel Bares, Mr*. Searls, Mr. Jnhn Ftsssst, Mr*. JfIFarUss, Mr, Fairjerviet, Mr. Field, Mr. Hcpktnt,Mr*, «*V/rt,C*pt. Hants, Mr Fbillipt, Mr. Shep. flf ari, Mr*. Swift, Mr. Pope, Mr. hovering, Mr.- H. p£Feller, Mr. Essflef, Mr. J.feph Sprague, Mr. ,.Wheeler, Mr. Lehr, Of*. Cridley, Mr. Gould, D‘lt;If. DHr klr. Hflr*. Mr. SifMr. VVMr, Petttn% Mr, Couth, Mr, Htltf, Mr, St gar,Ur. Sfopsrd, Mr. Bradford, Mr. Ojbern* (/hop) N Mt. Stowif, Capt^Gsrdner, Capt. Jeckfon, Mr, Johonnot, Mr. Jo!epk Popt, Mr. W*. Ptnmmen,Mr, Beta, Mr. Clerk (Swan tavern) Mr, May.
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Essex Journal And New Hampshire Packet
Newburyport, Massachusetts, US
Wed, Apr 25, 1787
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