The New Hampshire Gazette And General Advertiser

sailing-houses: and levelled some other buildings with the ground. The apple-trees, which in this place have flattered the farmers with hopes of more cyder than for many years past, were very much shaken of their apples, some were torn up by the roots: others rent and split to pieces. And even many sturdy oaks were overturned or broken and shattered to pieces: Board fences in one place are carried off to a distance: and stone wall, for several rods together was blown almost down to the ground. And fences in general were more out of repair, than they usually are in the spring of the year. The enormous size and injurious effects of the hail added to the horror of the scene. Some of it was found of the bigness of an ounce ball: Others were of a flat, cragged form. Some persons of veracity have asserted, that, an hour after the shower was over, when their bulk must be much lessened, they measured some pieces of ice that came down and found them to be three inches in circumference, each. And the effects of the hail give credit to what they say. The impressions made on the sides of buildings and fences may be seen several rods off. In some houses most of the glass in the windows is broken, and scarcely any houses escaped having some of the glass cracked. Grain that was not reaped was much shattered out or beaten into the ground. Fields of corn were stripped of its leaves and broken down, so that it is feared the crops will be much injured.

The rain, though it came with so much violence, was very grateful; as the earth was exceedingly parched with drought. The injury done by the wind and hail was not very extensive. It reached about two miles wide; and about three or four miles long. The middle of it was near the line that divides the two parishes.