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The New Hampshire Gazette
Portsmouth, Rockingham County, New Hampshire
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A devastating fire in Boston last week destroyed homes of over 300 families in four hours, leaving them destitute and the sky ablaze like a conflagration, as described in a letter from March 24.
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"You’ll doubtless hear by Letters of the terrible Desolation by Fire the last Week, whereby above three hundred Families, in four Hours, were turned out of their Habitations, and lost most of their Furniture, the Heavens Seem'd a meer Element of Fire, so that it look'd like the general Conflagration; the Poor wringing their Hands, and in the utmost Distress: And it was the most melancholy Scene I ever beheld, but the Subject is so shocking I can proceed no farther at this Time."
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Boston
Event Date
Last Week (Letter Dated March 24)
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above three hundred families turned out of their habitations, and lost most of their furniture
Event Details
Terrible Desolation by Fire the last Week, whereby above three hundred Families, in four Hours, were turned out of their Habitations, and lost most of their Furniture, the Heavens Seem'd a meer Element of Fire, so that it look'd like the general Conflagration; the Poor wringing their Hands, and in the utmost Distress