Violent Storm, Captive of the Dartmouth Raid Returns

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On Sunday last we had a violent storm of Wind and Rain at about S.S.E. it began on Saturday night and lasted until Sunday night about 10 o’clock, when the wind shifted to S.S.W. and blew excessive hard, by which means several houses and frames in the town and suburbs were very much damaged, and near an hundred Trees blown down on Citadel Hill at the back of the town; and at George’s Island a Tree was blown down which fell across the buildings erected for the Germans who lately arrived here, by which means five persons were very much wounded, but no lives lost.

On Tuesday last arrived here Capt. Tingley from New York, who brought a woman passenger from thence, who was taken captive by the Indians at Dartmouth and carried to Canada above a year ago.

Halifax Gazette, October 7, 1752. Page 2, Column 1. https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=4p3FJGzxjgAC&dat=17521007&printsec=frontpage&hl=en

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