The Massachusetts spy. [volume] (Boston [Mass.]) 1770-1772, 1772-02-06

abou; tive years of age) who had been
walked b. the fire, and made its cicape from
the houie Mis- Allen immelia'ely ran to
the tore door Of the houfe, which lhe opened,
the hEe broke out upon her, and prevented
her going in-She tried to get into the houl.
a. ieveTa, ether places. inordeT 10 fave her two
children that remained in the houle, but the
lnhde being all in flames, rendered every
means 10 fave them Intellectual, and the two
innocen; babes perifhed in the Aames One
Of them the next day Was taken out of the bed
where II lay, the bed inti'ely burnt up, and
the body about half coniumel--'he other
IN endeavou'ing 10 fave 'tlcf,, lcit Z e bed
and ran into the dwelling room, which was
over the celia, the ban@s OF 1t were found
in the cellar the neX, evening, the body EN-
tirely conipn but the liver remained un.
touched b. Tie lie.
PHILADELPHIA, Ta7~ay ?, Al a
80 ciai Court ~ over anJ | { m nef, and
Gcncrl! Goal p livery held the I2,t
III lor the county of B73toi5, came on
tn. tai OF Lieutenant Robert Hamilton
It I'll: 8yh regiment, on Al Indictment %
marA u Inter, for the death Of Enii2n
r.ady Of tire FAM regiment, at Fort PITT;
and, after full hearing and examination
o. al the " Icu;e, relative TO this unhap
py affair. MIC. Hamilton was honeurab'y
acquitted, the jury not having itaid from
the bar but about ten minutes.
Emyoa eta letter JJon Capt. hliibsnr Of fbif
bo',, datld at 81. KITS, Dfefm6v -.
" About 20 leagues S +. OF our CapCs,
! took III: people, viz. David Foot, D~-
v,d C'ark, and Charles Baker, out of
fma fchooner fromNorth- Carolina, bound
t. New Haven, who was in great diitr' IS,
near iinkine, fails aid rigging all to pieces,
ont III day., and no prov,iions but their
cargo of potatoes, and though the wind
was At that time fair, they would not pro-
coed, but declared they mutt perth if did
not take theu on board, which did, and
landed them at Antigua.
Captain Ch,vers, from Newry, about
three weeks ago, in lat. 81. long. 50
4fpeke lJoP, Captain Cook, from Bottom
fofFXal.
Ngw-LoNDoH, January 81. On the
aAilsM of the zoth infant, the following
peTfons broke out of the goal in Hartford,
viz. John Smith, who for fundry years has
rcilded at Sufield, where it is fuppoCed his
principal buGuefs has been lin company
with Others to counterfeit money, chiefly
New-York and New erfey bills, for
which he was convicted before the Superior
Court, but had not received his punilh-
ment,-Obadiah Mathcrs OF Pennington,
who was committed OF an execution of
cool. r, recovered aoaina him bya young
woman, Oh an action of defam4ti?n,-
I.choniah Holcomb Of Syuibury, Joras
Caic 81 Hebron, onn Swaney tranGent
pcrfon, all for dcbt,-G or2e Tryon of
Farmin tor, a young lad committed for
want o: bijl, on young woman fwear-
ing chill upon him. On'y one perlon
remained in gaol, and he happened to be
Gck.
ALBANY, Dectmtrr 90. On Monday the
23d Init A large bear, OF uncommon ihape,
broke into the fheep pen of Mr.. Adolphus
Wolrath, of Coay,bary,and killed 70 fheep.
The pen beirg bull, ollogs, he found it i'm.
pregnable below, but on climbing up to the
roof which was covered with looie boards, he
made a breach and got down--ln the
morning, Mr.. Wolrah was alarmed by an
unufual nofe amongf the fheep, and hav-
ing difcovered the caufe, he called loudly
for the ailitance Of his neighbours who in
family sGembied, armed with axes, fi,hes,
ftubbiag-hoes, guns, &c.-The appear
ance Of 70 formidable an army, thus equip.
ed enraged the ferocious brute 20 degree
of fury, esicr to be conceived than expref
fed feeling no way to elcape, he fpTung up
10 the breach which he had made, and feiZ .
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