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The New Hampshire Gazette
Portsmouth, Rockingham County, New Hampshire
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A violent gale hit Liverpool on March 15 around 10 a.m., the worst in 20 years, driving six outward-bound foreign vessels ashore, sinking others, destroying chimneys and buildings, drowning numbers of people, injuring many, and toppling part of St. Thomas's Steeple.
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This Morning about ten a'Clock, it began very suddenly to blow a more violent Gale of Wind than has been known these twenty Years: Six outward-bound Foreigners are put ashore from the Rock, and as many opposite to the Town, one Vessel has ran thro' the middle of another, and several keel upwards; Chimneys down in almost every Street of the Town, large Buildings destroyed, Numbers of People drowned, and many sadly hurt. I had almost forgot to tell you that near twenty Foot of St. Thomas's Steeple was blown into the Church.
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Liverpool
Event Date
March 15
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numbers of people drowned, and many sadly hurt; six outward-bound foreigners put ashore, one vessel ran through another, several keel upwards; chimneys down in almost every street, large buildings destroyed, near twenty foot of st. thomas's steeple blown into the church.
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This Morning about ten a'Clock, it began very suddenly to blow a more violent Gale of Wind than has been known these twenty Years: Six outward-bound Foreigners are put ashore from the Rock, and as many opposite to the Town, one Vessel has ran thro' the middle of another, and several keel upwards.