The New Hampshire Gazette

Last Wednesday Morning between 3 and 4 o'clock a Fire broke out in this Town in some Wooden Buildings, a little to the Southward of Oliver's Bridge, and extended to the lower End of Water Street and Milk Street, to Mr. Hallowell's Ship Yard: The Fire raged with great Violence for two Hours, in which Time ten or 12 Dwelling Houses (most of them large) besides a Number of Shops and other Buildings were destroyed, and between twenty and thirty Families burnt Out; and Abundance of Household Furniture, Shop Goods and other Effects consumed; there being no Opportunity of saving much in the Houses which first catch'd on Fire --His Excellency the Governor was present during the whole Time of the Fire; whose Direction and Influence was very serviceable, and whose paternal Care and Tenderness for the distressed was quite apparent.