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Gazette Of The United States And Daily Evening Advertiser
Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania
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On March 7, 1813, in Plain-Dealing Creek, Talbot County, Maryland, a person oystering discovered a 24-inch circumference, 34-pound bomb-shell containing a live Miller's Thumb fish, believed to have grown inside after entering via the fuse hole. It is thought to originate from a 1779 British privateer attack on a militia officer's house near Oxford.
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A Curiosity.—On the 7th inst. as a person was oyster ing in Plain-Dealing creek, Talbot county, he took up a bomb-shell whose circumference measured 24 inches, and weighed 34 pounds within which was a live fish called the Miller's Thumb, who had, it is supposed, taken up his residence within this thunder-bolt of mischief in its juvenile days, and had made his entrance by the way of the vent, or fuse, and since which (either by taking too long a nap, or by feasting on the small fry who might have fled thither for refuge, or have been led to visit this uncommon villa through mere curiosity) had become so corpulent as not to be able to repass the door of his mansion.
'Tis also supposed this bomb was fired at the house of a militia officer from a British pickaroon laying off Oxford, in the year 1779, as it was found in a direct line from that place with the said house, but happily fell somewhat short.
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Plain Dealing Creek, Talbot County, Maryland
Event Date
7th Inst.
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bomb-shell found containing a live miller's thumb fish; no casualties reported from original incident.
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A person oystering in Plain-Dealing creek, Talbot county, took up a bomb-shell measuring 24 inches in circumference and weighing 34 pounds, inside which was a live fish called the Miller's Thumb that had entered via the vent or fuse in its juvenile days and grown too large to exit. Supposed to have been fired from a British pickaroon off Oxford at a militia officer's house in 1779, landing short.