The Massachusetts spy. [volume] (Boston [Mass.]) 1770-1772, 1772-10-01

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Brown f,om Bitfol. =.
Capt. cAzneao is mex; expected from Lo'i-'
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BAssErSRRE, [t Crifefbrl sfs'e'7.
Der 4. No fate, though eve' 10 happily
clrcumRanccd, Can pronife ltfslf du'4t'on
of felicity. 1--WE may Atttcr ousieives. m
deed, butlvaisris that a .uqy II the hand OF
/ o oviJence,interferss to bait cur hopes.
We mentioned in our Taft, that when the
paper went topreis gaze oiwlnd continued,
and that evening leveral v:fes were drove
aihor-, viz. aAoop belonging to M. Sat.
terthwaite was ftrsndet near Londonderry
fort, one of Mr.. Co5let's, and another of
Nj. Reaps at Nsyis, at the fat ponds, with
all the h0lks; three Others at SANDY point,
YET fill the meafure of our woes was not
tull, that .dreadfsl event was. rsierved for
Monday the lat day Of Aaeua. WORDS
are too, faint TO paint the horrors of thas
day The hprricaae began about nine o.
clock, 10 fhe horning, and continued with
unremittihe fay, almoR north, until ele-
ven ss:in Rhleh time about forty houf.s
were Isvelied with the ground, and tho
helpless, inhabitants beyond EXPIRE hion
wretched !: horror and dlfnay feiZsd all
ranks and conditions, and delfruefion feem-
| ed intpcnded by a thread over the heads Of
all. The new Court Houic wis rent ia
| ten thouland pieces, and hardly left the
| foundation handing, Some part of the
i e .C - ~ar~sa1 h.
of the TO, es OF M us. Hen3erfon and
Murray, and M IFS Shsrry and Sanderfors
| were carried bojiy into the hleets. The
| largtf tamarird trees were torn UP by the
roots, and removed 10 comfortable diRahces
from the places where they grew. BY this
form upwards OF forty houfes, befles out
Offices, inclofdres. negro houtes, &c. &c.
were thrown down. Mr.. RAWLINGS and
| M. Besch's hou,es on the hills were de-
molilhed, and ali the veifcls in the road
drlfted to fez About twelve the form
began again from the (outhwards with re-
doubled vigour, and proved BY far more
dreadful than before. The yellels were all
drove back again and wrecked. 1t is inn
Pofhbie for us to give jult account of this
terrible viiitation of providence inthis days
paper, our accounts being too imperfect 10
be relied on /; for, as we mean 70 be as
circumipeG as poflble in the accounts we
ihail give OF this ruinous dhafter, we fhall
fulpend the particulars till We are better in.
formed asao generals we fhal at preleni
only. obte1ve, that Richard Matthews Eq,
(fome FAY Mr.. James Matthews, Mrss.
Brown, near SANDY Bay, Nj. Gaitwood,
and Mrs Thomas RelIet ofthe late Mr..
Ilaac Thomas, were all killed by the fall of
the bouts where they were that the
church OF Cayon has not one itone upon a.
mother that Nichoa town church is iD the
fame iilaation that every houfe in Deep
Bay Is totally deRroyed that not more
than ten houics remain up in SANDY Point |,
that AL the buildings in Charles Fot are
laid fmackfmooth with the ground thar
Old Road is one continued wreck rhat
BaifeteTte has loft about one hundred houf-
es; that there are not ten negro bouies efe
in the whole lAand that mott of the wind
mills, at leaff in the Bsh=terre quarter, HAYS
had their round houlcs carried away and
the next years crop will at Ieaft fall Mort
fourteen or fifteen thoufand hog fheads OF fu-
gar. Yt Imlda this general detail We nuf
beg leave to introduce TO the readers attent :
on two cafes mott diatreisfulIy eircumftanced,
we mean that OF Ms BlbUy in lrfh town,
and Mi. JohnFahy, junior. The fla VII
dow, and her daughters, young ladies' of
reputation, had their houle in an infant
reduced 70 atoms, and their wear
ing apparel whiTled into the air, iniomuch
as to leave them defitute OF af-coht luit, 5.
bGtthouetl their lofs docs LOT amount to
halfof ths tythe of what Others have luf-
tanned, yet they have ,Ioft their ALL and
the reader muf oblerve they have neither
huiband ,tAtber, or brother, to protea them.