The New Hampshire Gazette And Historical Chronicle

A letter from Richmond dated on Monday last says: There is now the greatest freshet in James River ever known, it being at least twenty feet higher than that in May 1766. The warehouses at Wetham are entirely gone, with three hundred hogsheads of Tobacco, At Byrd's warehouses. the water is now half way up the lower tier of hogsheads; the other warehouses at Shockoe are almost under water, and the tobacco drifting away by thirty and forty hogsheads at a time. It is imagined there was about 2000 hogsheads in the different warehouses at Shockoe. Almost every lumber-house is gone, and destroyed, on each side of the river, many of them full of goods; with many dwelling-houses, both here and Rocky-Ridge.