Impact of Soldiering on a New York Wife and Family, 1755
“The Wife of a Labouring Man in Dye-Street, who to all Appearances went to Bed well on Tuesday Night last, was found dead in her Bed the Morning after, occasioned, it’s imagined, from the great Effect the Thoughts of her ...
New York Fire Takes the Life of Mother and Four Children, 1757
“NEW-YORK, February 21 [1757]. On Wednesday Morning last [February 16], about 4 o’Clock, a dreadful Fire broke out in Dock-Street, in this City, in the Dwelling-House of Mr. Thomas Duncan, Merchant, which in a little Time entirely consumed the same, ...
