Fatal effc as of Lightning. 



Fatal effeBs of Light ning; m a letter to the Rev. JOSEPH \^IL- 



LAKT>^ prefident of the univerfttyin Camhr'J^iand vice treft^ 

 dent of tije American Academy of Arts and Sciences, By Rev. 



JOHN LATHROP, D,D. A, A, S, . 



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Hev. sir, 



on, July ifjiygS. 



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N compliance with the requefl of the Academy, expreff- 

 ed at the laft meeting, that the feveral members would commu- 

 nicate fuch cafes of the effe<5ls of lightning^ as may have come 

 to their knowledge, I have the honor to communicate the 





only cafe which has happened in this""town, fo far as I can 

 learn, in wliich life has been deilroyed by a flroke of light 



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TTie account which I am about to give has been commiinz- 

 cated to me by Mr. Benjamin Henderfon. Mr. Henderfon is 



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now 72 years old, and as he was 1 2 at the thne, he has a clear 



remembrance of the thunder florm, and of the efFe(5ts. . . 



He informs me that he then lived with his mother in the 



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houfe which makes the north lide of the arch, leading to the 

 dwelling houfe of the late Jonathan Williams, Efq. There 



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were in the room five gentlemen belonging to the general 

 -court, himfelf, his filler, and Deborah Stratton, the young per- 

 fon who was killed. 



- As the florm increafed, this Deborah, a child of about 1 3 



^ears old* beine intimidated, ran to one of the gentleman, who 



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