When was it published?

January 26, 1769 in The Virginia Gazette

Foreign News January 26, 1769

The Virginia Gazette

Q: What keywords are associated?

Sow Bite, Child Arm Loss, Purbeck Accident, Grandmother Asleep

Richmond, Williamsburg, Richmond County, Virginia

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What is this article about?

In the Isle of Purbeck, Dorsetshire, a sow bit off the right arm of a one-year-old girl while her 80-year-old grandmother Joan Gryles slept; the child is expected to recover despite the severe injury.

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The following accident happened lately in the isle of Purbeck, Dorsetshire. One Joan Gryles, an old woman near 80, was intrusted with the care of her grand-daughter, a child about a year old, while the father and mother were gone to Weymouth. The old woman fell asleep, during which time a sow bit off the right arm of the child, and would have destroyed it, had not the old woman awaked. Notwithstanding the child lost her arm near the shoulder, the surgeon thinks there are great hopes of recovery.

What sub-type of article is it?

Animal Attack Child Injury

What keywords are associated?

Sow Bite Child Arm Loss Purbeck Accident Grandmother Asleep

What entities or persons were involved?

Joan Gryles

Where did it happen?

Isle Of Purbeck, Dorsetshire

Foreign News Details

Primary Location

Isle Of Purbeck, Dorsetshire

Event Date

Lately

Key Persons

Joan Gryles

Outcome

child lost her right arm near the shoulder, but surgeon thinks there are great hopes of recovery

Event Details

One Joan Gryles, an old woman near 80, was intrusted with the care of her grand-daughter, a child about a year old, while the father and mother were gone to Weymouth. The old woman fell asleep, during which time a sow bit off the right arm of the child, and would have destroyed it, had not the old woman awaked.