Fowle's New Hampshire Gazette And General Advertiser

NEWBURY-PORT, Dec. 14:

In the course of last week, a family in this neighborhood removed, with their effects, into a newly finished house, and having considerable company, were necessitated to conclude to take up their lodgings in chambers lately plastered, and not sufficiently dried—in some of these chambers the company spent part of the evening, till at length, a sister to the owner of the house complaining of being unwell, and a pain in her stomach, it was thought prudent for her to retire to bed, but during her preparation therefor, her sister (wife to the owner of the house) fainted, and on recovering herself a little, made the same complaints—their difficulties increasing, a Doctor was sent for, who, when he came, found 8 or 9 of the company in much the same situation, among whom was the master of the house, who fainted, and complained as the rest. The Doctor ordered them out of the damp rooms, and they soon found relief—This is inserted for a caution to others.