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From Robertson's NEW YORK GAZETTE.
MONTEGO-BAY. Oaober 7.
The following is a particular Account of the late
dreadful Hurricane in the Inland of Jamaica.,
ON Monday Night the fecund Infl. about twelve
o'Clock, there came on a Borm of wind and
r^ a, which continued with unremitted Perseverance
and Violence from the S. E. until twelve o'Clock on
Tuesday; the Weather appeared to be then a little
moderated, and continued so much abated until be
tween.three and four o'Clock in the Evening, as to
fumiffi' no immediate Indications of an approaching
Storm. Abouftfour o'Clock the Wind seemed to
be quite southerly, bat increased (accompanied with
incefant Rain) to fach an amazing Degree, as about
Dark to threaten general Ruin' and DeftruAion : The
Darkness of the Night added freffi Horrors to the
general Apprehenfione ; arid, a Circumßaned whigh
on ordinary Occasions would have been qonfidered
as peculiarly terrifying, the immense and prodigious
Flashes of Lightning, which regularly succeeded
each other, was an Alleviation to the general con
fiernation, and the only Security to the very few
0 whole particular Situations permitted or Inclined
them to venture through the Streets to afford Com
fort and Relief to the distresses of their Neighbours.
About 12 o'Clock', from the bel of our Informati
on, and our own Rfaolleaion, the S:orm began to
abate; but the many Instances of Devalatiou and
Distress which even then presented itfelf to our View,
and which we begin to be appriftd of from different
Quarter, of the Town, afforded Suggestions to the
Mind, which rendered the Approach of Morn truly
terrible. Our descriptive Powers, we acknowledge,
are inadequate to the Talk of impressing o ir Readers
with proper Ideas of the many and variegated Scenes
of Calamity and Distress, which the new Day pre
sented to our View ; the Face of Nature seemed to
tally changed ! the Mountains, as if weary of their
Load, and drooping under the Prepare of a fuperiot
Influence, which they could neither support nor re-
AS, had adopted a new Form, and appeared difman
tied of those lofty vardant Trees which constituted
their Granduer and Excellence, and formerly had
rendered them beautiful and agreeable to the Sight.
It is impoffibie at prefect to recount the particular
losses of every Individual ; many Houses in this
Town have been destroyed ; among the principle
Sufferers are, Mr. Vincent, Dr. Muttcrlhed, the
Oate of James Lugg. Mr. Whitaker. Mr. Stothert,
and the Barracks ofFort Frederick. The Darkness
fthe Night rendered it impoffibie to attend to the
rate of the Ships Ladles Adventure and Lenox,
rhich were in the Harbour when the Storm com
menced; the raoft probable and favourable Conjec
tures which could be made, upon their being miffed
in the Morning, was their having put to Sea in the
JNight, and no Symptoms of Wrecks having yet ap
peared to discredit this Conja&ure, we are in hour
ly and impatient Exudation of feeing them, or hea<
Ing of their fafaty. All the smaller Craft in the Har
bour, together with the Ship Petersleld, which had
been preserved and repaired after the Shipwreck of
I*l February, are totally lol; and the Brigantine
Jane, which had gone aown a few Days before to
Great River, a Place of apparent Safety, had been
drove aihore, but we are informed wlil be got off
with very little Damage.
What we have yet recited, fails far fort of the
Accounts which we hourly receive of the Damage
done in Hanover and Weftraoreland. O& Luces-
Bay only two Houses remain Binding, and his Ma
jesty's Sloop Badger which happened to be in the
Harbour, notwith Banding her being held by three
Anchors a head, was drove ahore by the Violence
;of the Storm, with the Loss of her Masts, but we are
Informed will be got off. An universal Devaflation
and Rain has prevailed in the Country, all the Elites
and „orks are almost totally defrayed ; the Dwel-
Hng-hoafcs of Batchtier's Hall, Salt Spring, Camble
ton, Kendal, and of the whole-Parish in general, are
thrown down and in Ruins; Numbers of Negroes,
and many white People are said to be loft; those of
the latter Description, who have vet corac to our
Knowledge, are Messrs. M. and Dias, Gentle
men of the Jewish Nation, much refpe&ed and re
gretted, by all their Acquaintances, and a Carpen
ter at Haughton Town Eiiate.
St. Jago de la Viga, Oct. 12. At Svanna
11 Mar on the Afternoon of Tuesday the 3d Inflant
about three o'Clock, the Wind began to blow very
hard from the S. E. accompanied with heavy Rains,
and by four Bad acquired such Strength as to tear the
Trees up by the Roots, and Grip the Houses of their
Shingles. Between five and fix the Sea began to
rife, and continued for near an Hour to (well to a
molt amazing height, overflowing the ill fated town
of Savina la Mar; and the low lands adjacent.
Fix this time until eight o'clock, the foxes of the
wind and the imptfuofcy of the waves overthrew
and demolished every hoafe in that unfortunate place,
and buried mod of the inhabitants in its ruins. A
little after eight, it began to abate, but nevertheltf,
continued blowing very hard until midnight, when
the wind veered round to the westward. No pen
can describe the horrors of'the fcenc Which the
scorning presented to the 6,ht of the few who sur
vived to lament the fate of their wretched neigh
bours, the earth Brewed with the mangled bodies of
(he dead and dylyg, some with broken limb#, who
in that situation had been to&d about during the
Borm, and afterwards left on the wet naked earth,
td languiffi out the night in Agonies, with no hand
to help, or eye to pity them. Humanity recoils at
the contemplation of fdfh unheard of calamities
aud every feeling heart mull melt at the bare recital.
We are,informed by gentlemen who are juß ar
rived from that quarter,, th,t the bodies of 80 white
perlons have already been found, and many more
expected to be dug out of the ruins, and it is tho't
not less t,,n 400 Whites and Negroes mud have
period in and,about Savanne,a Mar.
The Ships Henty, Prineefi Royal, and Afton
Hall, then at anchor in the harbour, with two or
three Dreggers, were driven frost their mooring#,
and carried a ccafiderable way up into the Morass,
from whence it wilt be Impoffibie to / thtym off.
The Princess Royal had four Anchors out, and the
Crew were attempting to get out the §<h.,when the
Wind carried It fairly off the Deck force Distance in
to the Sea. One of the Ships wrnt over the Fort,
the Parapet of which at other Times Is about fifteen'
Feet above the Level of the /ate*. The Trimmer,
a Packet from Rattan, which lay at Bluefields, was
likewise Cent ashore, but all the Hands were (aved,
though some belonging to the other Vessels were off.
Throughout the whole Parish of Weßmjrelaud, from
the bed Information we can obtain, there is not a
Dwelling house, Oat-house, or a set of Works on any
of the EBates 1 left Banding. The Caner, Corn,
Plantain Trees, and every Produaion of the Earth
defrayed. At one EBate, Blue Cattle, Report fays,
that 200 Negroes ware killed in a Boiling house,
whether they had fled for Shelter. Along (he Sea
Coat many dead Bedies flattered about, probably
driven ashore from feme Wreak, meet the Eye of the
Paffenm, and one uniform Scene of Defection and
Devastation, overspreads the face of that part of the
Country. !
From St Elizabeth our accounts are ranch more
favourable. Some cAites there have fuffered, but
in a far less degree tbai those in Westmoreland, Ha
nover and St. James, over which the greats! force
of the Hurricane foems to have puffed. At Black
River a few houses arc overthrown, but aoue of any
confluence.
A Letter from Lucia fays, that upwards of four
hundred perfuns, white and blank, p&ilhed ia that
town and neighbourhood.
Our accounts from L icte, though not particular,
are terrible indeed ! The town, except two houses,
those of Mettes. A. and D. Campbell, and the ad
joining tenement of Mr. Lyons, levelled to the
ground, many lives 101, and In the whole parish of
Hanover, but three houses left Banding , • not a tree,
bush or cane to'be feea , unirerfal deßruaion pre
vails ! Of the wretched victims to this violation of
the course of nature, we can only as yet name Mess.
Aaron and Solomon Diar Fernandez, two ancient
gentlemen of the Jewish nation, one aged 81 and the
other 80, of refpeasble add venerable charaaers.
Three young ladies, Mrfs Samuel, at Green-Island.
The elegant house of John Campbel, Efy; at Salt
Spring, Kandell, and Campbell Town; and that of
Mr. Chambers at Batchelor's-Hall, no longer adorn
that rich and fertll? fririfh. Captain Darling, Mrs.
Darling aqd Mr. Mihara, were dragged out, hue
ly alive from the ruins of an Arch that fapported a
flight pf Steps, under which they had sheltered them-
Selves. Faurtem or fifteen people of colour, were
buried in a flora that fell in upon them.
Extn& of a letter from Mr. Nicholas Rothcram,
Montego Bay, Oaouir 9.
16 A Lieutenant and a few, men belonging to his
M jefty'sShip ?tea% arrived here yeflerday even
dug in a Boat, and brought an account that force
days before in a gale of wind, the Ihip fprunga leak,
and filled to the lower gun deck; fortunately for
the Chip's company, who must .otherwise all have
been loft, fne Bruck alraofl immediately, and Sir
Hyde Parker, with all his people (except about go,
who were 108 by the main-matt going overboard)
got on shore, and found thefafelves three Lea,ties to
the EaHward of Cape Cruz, in Cuba, that they had
got their guns, ammunition, provisions, &c. on
shore„ aod fortified themfelvet, till reliefcould be
(got from this island."
THE Dbfcriber having Supplied his cußomtrs
with the ConueSlcut Courant almol five
ytars, desires those that are indebted to him for the
fame to make immediate payment, as he is called
upon to make a speedy Settlement with the Printers.
Those that intend to continue their cußom for the
future, mufl depend on making quarterly payments,
as no papers can be had till they are paid for.
EBEN. BURR, jun.
Also, The noo-refident proprietors of the town of
Norfolk, are hereby warned to pay a Town Rate
made on the Lift 1779, to
EBB N, BUR R, jun. Coll&r.
Norfolk, December ill, 1780.
^Tfe^YED from the fubferiber feme time in No-'
O vender, a pale Red HEIFER, 2 years old co
min^, niarkt with a hollow crop in the right ear, a
little white in her forehead aod under her belly.
Whoever will return said Bray to the owner shall
have , reasonable reward and charges paid, by
JONATHAN BIGELOW.
Hartford, December 20, 1780.
NOTICE is hereby given to ihofe employed in
putting up provision for the S ate in the re
ipeaive towns near Hartford, or Middletown, who
have not received a feffic cni quantity of salt, to
a pply tD ''' fubfalbar, who will give orders for
that purpoO.
BENJAMIN PAYNE.
W HERAS Mr. Joseph Holbrook, and others
did obtain from the Governor and Council
of the State of Vermont, an order of location, and
order of furyey from the Surveyor General of said
State, for feyeral townfhlps of land in the vicinity
of Lake Mumphramagcg ; and whereas said Hol
brook, did, in violation of his agreement with the
Governor and Council cf said State, fell to Mr.
Temple and others the lands included in his said
location, and the A(Tfmb!y of said Siafe did at their
last session grant to said Temple and others a trad of
I nd, in lieu of making any grant to said Holbrook.
Therefore all pedons are warned against purchasing
any such lands of (aid Holbrook, or any other per
sons, under pretence of having petitions on file in
the fecretary'soffice of the aforefaid State, as such ti
tles are without foundation.
IRA ALLEN.
Hartford, December 8, 1780.
WK the Subferibers, being appointed Com
missioners by the Court of Probate, fur Q
dißriA of Litchfield, to examine the claims of the
creditors to the confifeated c-aterof Sylvanus Biffiop
and John Joy, bo'h late of Litchfield, agd William
Kavies, late of Kent, inimical persons who have
voluntarily gone over to the enemy: do hereby
give notice, that we shall attend on the bufiriefs on
the third and fourth Tuesdays of January next, at
the hoafe of Mr. Thomas Phillips, in said Litchfield.
MILES BEACH.
, TIMOTHY SKINNER,
Litchfield, November 28, 1780.
Preparing for the Press, and in a short Tirae will be
publified.-
LETTERS of Gratitude to the Connecticut
Pleader, the Rev. Jaleph Huntington. D. D.
For hi# Letters of Friendship to a certain Clifs of
Gentlemen, with llluftrations from recent Exam
ples.
By IMPARTIALIS.
" Honesty is the brsy Policy."
STRAYED from the Subfclber. in the month
of June left, three Heifer CALVES; with
a half-penny under each ear, and a hole in the right.
Whoever will take up said Calves, and inform the
fabferiber, shall be handsomely rewarded, by
AUGUSTUS HILLS.
CoChen, December 6, 1780.
STRAYED form Ead Hartford Meadow, feme
time in Oaober laß, a Dark Brown or Black
HORSE, about 6 years old, a (shall blaze in hi#
forehead natural pacer, nob?and, crooked hind legs.
Whoever will take up said Horse, and find word
to the owner, shall have a reafooable reward, and
charges paid, by
ASHBEL OLCOTT.
Cllafienbary, December 22, ' 1780,
THIS is to Notify all the Subferibers to the
BRIDCE between Scotland and Turky-
HJls, that the Comittee are fj mneßly called upon
for Payment, where due, that it is abfclutely Ne
ceffafy they fhonld immediately pay their Dues, to
JONATHAN PINNEY,
BENJAMIN THRALL.
December 20, 1780.