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The New Hampshire Gazette
Portsmouth, Rockingham County, New Hampshire
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The King of Prussia sent corn worth 100,000 crowns from Dantzick to relieve famine-stricken subjects in Pomerania. A July 15 letter from a Stettin clergyman described destroyed villages near Colberg, with inhabitants starving and begging for bread after five days without.
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The King of Prussia, moved by the extreme necessity of his subjects in Pomerania, has caused corn to be brought at Dantzick to the Value of 100,000 crowns for their relief. But notwithstanding this bountiful gift of the King, the distresses of this Province exceeds all description, as appears by a letter lately received from an eminent Clergyman at Stettin, dated July 15, who, on his journey to Colberg, found upwards of eleven villages laid in ashes, and others so ruined, that no living creature was to be seen, but skeletons of people perished with hunger, and gnawed by wild beasts. In two villages near Colberg, which he passed through, the Inhabitants surrounded his coach, begging for a bit of bread, assuring him they had not seen a piece of bread for five days
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Pomerania
Event Date
July 15
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corn relief worth 100,000 crowns provided; villages destroyed, inhabitants starving with no bread for five days, skeletons of hunger victims gnawed by wild beasts
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King of Prussia sent corn from Dantzick for relief in Pomerania amid extreme distress. Letter from Stettin clergyman dated July 15 reports journey to Colberg passing eleven villages in ashes and ruined ones with no living creatures, only hunger-perished skeletons; near Colberg, villagers begged for bread after five days without.