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The New Hampshire Gazette
Portsmouth, Rockingham County, New Hampshire
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In Harvard, five-year-old Abigail Davis died from burns after her gown caught fire while playing at a neighbor's house; her father extinguished the flames, but she succumbed twenty hours later, grieving her family and neighborhood.
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MELANCHOLY ACCIDENT.
On Tuesday the 28th inst. Abigail Davis, only daughter to Mr. Flint Davis—of Harvard, a promising child aged five years, being at a near neighbor's with several children (the rest of the family being out of the house) by some means her Gown took fire, which the other children attempted to put out, but finding their endeavors unsuccessful, one of them ran and called her father from his shop across the street, who instantly flew to her relief, found her clothes all of a light blaze, which he immediately extinguished by the application of water, but notwithstanding every exertion was made to save her much desired life, she expired in twenty hours to the great grief of her kind and fond parent, and the sympathetic sorrow of the whole neighborhood.
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Harvard
Event Date
Tuesday The 28th Inst.
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abigail davis, aged five years, expired in twenty hours after suffering severe burns.
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Abigail Davis, only daughter of Mr. Flint Davis of Harvard, was at a near neighbor's house with several children when her gown took fire. The other children tried to extinguish it but failed, and one called her father from his shop across the street. He extinguished the blaze with water, but despite efforts, she died twenty hours later.