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The New Hampshire Gazette And Historical Chronicle
Portsmouth, Greenland, Rockingham County, New Hampshire
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Reports from various parts detail damage from floods and ice due to a sudden thaw, including all bridges near New-Haven, Connecticut, being destroyed or impassable, and a brig under Capt. Venters wrecked on rocks, losing its cargo of livestock, grain, and lumber, though the crew was saved.
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That a brig Capt. Venters, lying there ready to sail for the West-Indies, loaded with live stock: Cattle. Horses, Grain; Lumber, was by the Ice driven on the rocks with such violence that the vessel was beat to pieces and the whole cargo entirely lost--the people were saved.
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New Haven In Connecticut
Event Date
Late Sudden Thaw
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all the bridges in that neighbourhood were either carried away or rendered impassable; the vessel was beat to pieces and the whole cargo entirely lost--the people were saved
Event Details
terrible accounts from all parts, of the damage done by the floods and ice upon the late sudden thaw: From New-Haven in Connecticut. we hear that all the bridges in that neighbourhood were either carried away or rendered impassable. That a brig Capt. Venters, lying there ready to sail for the West-Indies, loaded with live stock: Cattle. Horses, Grain; Lumber, was by the Ice driven on the rocks with such violence