Archive for ‘Connecticut’

Surviving the Hurricane of August 1751

“[Boston].  Last Friday came to Town from New-London, Capt. Samuel Gallop, late Master of the Brigantine Polly of this Place, who sail’d from hence the 19th of August last bound for Antigua, and informs us, That in his Passage on ...

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Tragedy in a Connecticut Town, 1759

“New London, June 1.  On Tuesday the 23d Ult. Was found in a Swamp, in the Parish of Pettapauge, in Say-Brook, an Infant buried under a Stone, being most inhumanly murdered; Upon which a Jury of Inquest was impannel’d by ...

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