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The New Hampshire Gazette And General Advertiser
Portsmouth, Rockingham County, New Hampshire
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A letter from Shelburne, Nova Scotia, dated July 6, describes a month-long wildfire raging in the woods, destroying houses, fences, and crops amid unprecedented dry weather, threatening the settlement and future harvests.
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"We are almost burnt out here, the fire has raged in the woods for upwards of a month, and has burnt up houses, fences and crops to a great amount. I shall be a great sufferer, as the poor people are incapable of making any payments. I am much afraid it will break up the settlement. The season being so far advanced, renders it hardly possible for any thing coming to perfection that is now put in the ground, turnips excepted. Such a spell of dry weather has not been known here this century; the very swamps are burnt up : The conflagration has not yet reached the town, but it is still hovering about it."
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Shelburne (N. S.)
Event Date
July 6
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burnt up houses, fences and crops to a great amount; fear of settlement breakup; poor people unable to pay; crops unlikely to mature except turnips; dry weather unprecedented this century; swamps burnt up; fire not yet reached town but hovering.
Event Details
Fire has raged in the woods for upwards of a month, destroying houses, fences, and crops; caused by spell of dry weather; threatens the town and settlement.