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Fowle's New Hampshire Gazette And General Advertiser
Portsmouth, Rockingham County, New Hampshire
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A severe hurricane hit the Bay of Honduras on August 29-30, 1785, destroying plantations in New and North Rivers, over 200 houses in Baccalar, and causing massive erosion and flooding at St. George's Key.
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"Old River's Mouth, Nov. 30, 1785.
On the 29th at night, but more particularly on the 30th of August, it blew a mere hurricane of wind: All the vessels at this river's mouth drove, some parted two cables, and yet here the gale was not near so violent as at St. George's Key, and to the northward of that.
In the New and North Rivers, all the plantations were totally destroyed: and upwards of 200 houses blown down in the Spanish settlement of Baccalar; at which place all the woods and plantations are thrown to the ground. Nothing of a similar nature was ever known or heard of in these parts before: You would not know St. George's Key, were you to see it: In many places it has lost upwards of 20 feet; the sea rolled free over it in almost every direction."
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Bay Of Honduras
Event Date
29th And 30th Of August 1785
Outcome
plantations totally destroyed in new and north rivers; upwards of 200 houses blown down in baccalar; woods and plantations leveled; st. george's key lost over 20 feet in places with sea rolling over it
Event Details
A hurricane struck on the 29th at night and particularly the 30th of August, driving vessels and parting cables at Old River's Mouth, with greater violence at St. George's Key and northward. All plantations in New and North Rivers destroyed; over 200 houses down in Spanish Baccalar with woods and plantations thrown down. Unprecedented in the region; St. George's Key unrecognizable with severe erosion and flooding.