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The New Hampshire Gazette And General Advertiser
Portsmouth, Rockingham County, New Hampshire
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Extract from a New York letter reports an unusually mild winter with minimal freezing, unprecedented since the city's founding. Combined with new federal commercial regulations, this has led to flourishing commerce, with wharves crowded and firewood prices at 15s. for oak and 25s. for hickory per cord.
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Extract of a letter from New-York, Dec. 31.
The weather is extremely mild, for this season, the cold has not been sufficiently severe to congeal cold water only once, which lasted but a few hours, since the commencement of this winter month.
So moderate a winter as the present, has not been known in this city since it was first founded, this, added to the new commercial regulations which have been instituted by the federal government, has rendered the state of commerce uncommonly flourishing.
Our wharves along their whole extent are crowded with fire-wood, which now sells, oak at 15s. and hickory at 25s. a cord.
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Primary Location
New York
Event Date
Dec. 31
Outcome
flourishing commerce; firewood prices: oak at 15s., hickory at 25s. a cord.
Event Details
Unusually mild winter with cold severe enough to freeze water only once briefly; unprecedented since city's founding. New federal commercial regulations contribute to booming trade, with wharves crowded with firewood.