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BEP(F.759.009
14 May 1759:31 (1237)
Portsmouth, New-Hampshire, May 11. Last Monday about two
o'clock in the morning, we had an uncommon storm of thunder
and lightning, which produced some melancholy effects, as it
has greatly damaged the Rev. Mr. Haven's meeting house; the
lightning struck the steeple, and rendering the spire in
pieces quite down to the cupula, over the bell, descended in
the N.Easterly and S. Westerly corner post.; the former of
which it shiver'd in small strips from end to end; and
shatter'd one of the main posts in the end of the house: . .
. [15 lines] And several other appearances there are of an
extensive shock; but it is remarkable that no part took fire
in the least degree, and that the bell is not at all
damaged.
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