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The New Hampshire Gazette And Historical Chronicle
Portsmouth, Greenland, Rockingham County, New Hampshire
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A severe frost on the nights of May 4 and 6 damaged fruits and a significant portion of wheat and rye crops across Virginia and Maryland, potentially eliminating exports, though Indian corn reserves and replanting offer some relief.
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"It is with great Concern we are to inform you, that we had a very severe and universal Frost in the Nights of the 4th and 6th Inst. which has been general through Virginia and this province, and how much farther we don't yet know; but this we are certain of. it has done the most incredible Damage to all the Fruits of the Earth, tho' most People are only now beginning to be sensible of it. All the Fruit, viz. Apples, Peaches, Cherries, &c. seem to be universally (with a few Exceptions) killed; but what is of infinitely more Importance, a very great Part of the Wheat and Rye (to what Proportion is yet uncertain) is in the same deplorable Situation. Various Opinions prevail on this dreadful Occasion; some conjecture there will not be the Amount of the Seed saved in many Places; others, that a third of the Crop at least is destroyed: But this on the whole seems to be highly probable, that there will not be a Handful of Wheat or Flour for Export next Season, if there is even sufficient for our own Use. By Accounts we have just received from Norfolk, it's imagined all the Wheat on James River is killed.---
We have one Consolation which few other Countries can experience under such Calamity, that we have a large Stock of Indian Corn, last Growth, on Hand; and that there is yet Time enough to plant more Corn on those Lands where the Wheat and Rye are killed, which many have already done."
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Baltimore
Event Date
Nights Of The 4th And 6th Inst.
Outcome
all fruits (apples, peaches, cherries, etc.) universally killed with few exceptions; very great part of wheat and rye destroyed, possibly up to a third or more, with no wheat or flour for export next season and uncertain sufficiency for local use; all wheat on james river imagined killed; consolation in large stock of indian corn and time to replant corn on affected lands.
Event Details
Severe and universal frost occurred in the nights of the 4th and 6th Inst., general through Virginia and this province, causing incredible damage to all fruits of the Earth and a very great part of the wheat and rye crops; various opinions on extent of destruction, but likely no exportable wheat or flour next season.