MASSACHUSETTS GAZETTE, AND THE BOSTON POST-BOY AND ADVERTISER, Aug. 24, 1772  A front page report from "Williamsburg" has details about a man struck and killed by lightening which also melted his shoe and knee buckles as well as two coins in his pocket. He and the others traveling with him also had their clothes scorched by the lightening. An extract of a letter from Norfolk says: "All the Ladies, and almost every Order of People here, are become Proselytes to Methodism; the Church is quite deserted....there were near three Thousand People to hear Mr. Pilmore on Sunday in the Fields. They flock to him from all Quarters...".
Page 3 has facts from a British pamphlet: "The Case of the Dissenting Ministers; Addressed to the Lords Spiritual & Temporal". Also a list of escapees from the "gaol" [jail] in Salem. Page 2 also has a portion of a letter from a man in London to another in Boston, including: "How can we be sufficiently grateful to Providence for the enjoyment of that lovely amiable blessing peace; she flourishes in Boston; she sits smiling in the Mother Country, England. Our prudent minster has banished almost even the idea of fraction...in a word, perhaps this island never in any age experienced more profound tranquility...".
Complete in 4 pages, never-trimmed margins, nice coat-of-arms engraving in the masthead, Small area of staining on the ftpg., otherwise very nice condition.