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Fowle's New Hampshire Gazette And General Advertiser
Portsmouth, Rockingham County, New Hampshire
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A fire in Dover destroyed a nearly completed house owned by Capt. William Horn and a building owned by Gen. Moulton, along with other property, caused by shavings left near the fireplace during breakfast. The report laments the lack of fire engines, available cheaply in Portsmouth.
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Last Saturday a genteel house just finishing at Dover, the property of Capt. William Horn, took fire and was consumed; the fire communicated to a building belonging to Gen. Moulton, which was also consumed, beside other property: It is said the above misfortune was occasioned by leaving shavings near the fire place, while the workmen went to breakfast. It is a pity so many buildings should be destroyed in the country for want of means to extinguish fires, when Engines for that purpose are made in this town for the small sum of fifteen dollars, with which two persons will throw water over the ridge pole of any common three story building, and discharge from half a barrel to a barrel per minute.
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Dover
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Last Saturday
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a genteel house just finishing and a building consumed, beside other property
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A genteel house just finishing at Dover, the property of Capt. William Horn, took fire and was consumed; the fire communicated to a building belonging to Gen. Moulton, which was also consumed, beside other property: It is said the above misfortune was occasioned by leaving shavings near the fire place, while the workmen went to breakfast.