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Item # 690079

August 05, 1771

THE NORTHAMPTON MERCURY, England, Aug. 5, 1771

* Henrico County, Virginia flood of 1771

 Page 3 has reports from the Virginia Gazette including: "...that they received daily accounts of the devastation occasioned by the late floods...have been swept away...Fourteen Negroes belonging to the estate were drowned..." with much more.
Four pages, never bound nor trimmed with wide margins, printed on thick-stock newsprint.

Category: The 1600's and 1700's