The New Hampshire Gazette And Historical Chronicle

Sept. 9. There happened last week, at Ketton, in the County of Rutland, a very remarkable instance of the Divine displeasure.--A shepherd folding his flock, observed several struck with the flies (a circumstance that often happens to sheep at this time of the year) and finding it very difficult to clear the sheep of them, began in a most reprobate and blasphemous manner, to curse not only the flies, but their maker. He was immediately struck with them on the arm, carried home, and languished from Saturday till Monday, and then expired in the greatest agonies. His wife, during this time, sat by him, and used every means to keep the flies off him, but in vain; and the maggots came out of his mouth, nose, and ears: when he died his body was so very offensive the family could not bear it.