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PL.776.066
9 Nov 1776:23, 31 (94)
From the New York Mercury. New-York, September 30. On
Saturday the 21st instant we had a terrible fire in this
city, which consumed about one thousand houses, or nearly a
fourth of the whole city. . . [5 lines] The Rebel Army
having carried off all the bells of the city, the alarm
could not be speedily communicated; and very few of the
citizens were in town, most of them being driven out by the
calamities of war, . . . [near end of account:] the pumps
and fire engines were very much out of order. This last
circumstance, together with the removal of our bells, the
time and place of the fire's breaking out . . . [indicate a
deliberate scheme.]
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