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The New Hampshire Gazette And Historical Chronicle
Portsmouth, Greenland, Rockingham County, New Hampshire
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In New York on the evening of the previous Monday, a 4-year-old girl, left alone briefly by her mother, suffered fatal burns when her calico frock caught fire; a neighbor extinguished the flames in snow, but she soon died.
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Last Monday Evening the Wife of John Lewis, of the out ward of this city, labourer, step'd out to a neighbour's house to borrow a candle, leaving only 3 small children in the house. She had not been absent above 3 minutes, when one of them, a little girl about 4 years of age, run out into the street with her frock, which was calico, all in flames; one of the neighbours immediately threw her into a bank of snow, and extinguished the fire; but the poor child was so terribly burnt, that she soon expired.
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Out Ward Of This City
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Last Monday Evening
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the poor child was so terribly burnt, that she soon expired
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the Wife of John Lewis... step'd out to a neighbour's house to borrow a candle, leaving only 3 small children in the house. She had not been absent above 3 minutes, when one of them, a little girl about 4 years of age, run out into the street with her frock, which was calico, all in flames; one of the neighbours immediately threw her into a bank of snow, and extinguished the fire