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Church in Rhode Island is set afire...
Church in Rhode Island is set afire...
Item # 683552
May 30, 1727
THE POST BOY, London, May 30, 1727
* Early American report
Among the front page reports is one datelined from "Boston in New England" noting: "By letters from Rhode Island...we hear that about one o'clock that night a parcel of combustible matter was laid, and by all circumstances willfully set on fire under the porch floor of their old church, which if it had burnt but a quarter of an hour longer had inevitably consumed it."
It is rather unusual to find news reports from America in such early newspapers.
A single sheet issue, 8 1/2 by 14 inches, two decorative engravings in the masthead, very nice condition.
Category: The 1600's and 1700's
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