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MG-A(G.776.027
14 Nov 1776:22 (1627)
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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