c. 30 October 1723 . From "The Boston Weekly News-Letter", 

 No. 1033. From Thursd^'-, November 27 to Thursday, November II4., 

 1723. 



"Rhode Island - On Wednesday last we had here 

 a very great Southeast storm of wind and rain, and 

 a very high tide, a foot higher than ever was known 

 before, which has broken and carried away several 

 of our wharves, and drove some vessels ashore from 

 their anchors, and has done considerable damage 

 in warehouses and cellars, to dry goods and other 

 merchandise J the loss is computed to some thousand 

 poimds." 



d. 21; October 1761 . From "The Boston News Letter", No. 

 2991. Thursday, October 29, I76I. 



"There was a hard gale of wind which brought 

 the highest tide into the harbor of Providence in 

 Rhode Island that hath been known in the memory 

 of man, and carried away the great or VJeybosset 

 Bridge. Five or six vessels were drove ashore 

 and greatly damaged, and it being high water 

 there, it got into the stores and cellars and 

 damaged sugars, etc. to the amount of 12 or 

 15000 pounds their ciurrency. On both roads East 

 and West, so far as we have heard, the roofs of 

 houses, tops of barns, and fences, have been 

 bl|ovm down, and it is said thousands of trees 

 have been torn up by the roots by the violence 

 of the above storm, and we fear we shall hear 

 melancholy accounts of damage done at sea." 



The following excerpt is quoted from "Memoirs of Rhode 

 Island 1636-1783" by Henry Bull. 



"From the Newport Mercury of October 27 > I76I - 

 On Friday last came on a terrible storm from the 

 Northeast, which continued increasing with a very 

 heavy rain, and did not abate till after 2 in the 

 morning. The violence of the wind broke off part 

 of the steeple of Trinity Church. Several persons 

 sustained considerable loss in their sugar, salt, 

 etc. by the prodigious rise of tide, which flowed 

 into their stores and cellars. Many of the ships 

 in the harbor were driven ashore from the wharves 



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