“Cold Weather”

Date

2-6-1812

Newspaper

Boston Independent Chronicle

Page and Column

Page 3, Column 1

Newspaper Location

Boston, Independent Chronicle

Serial Number

163

Abstract

Weather for Portsmouth, New Hampshire for January 16, 19, 1812. No mention of an earthquake, Also report of busting of earth at Salem, Massachusetts for January 18, 1812 calling it a cause for earthquake report from the town.

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COLD WEATHER. Extract from C. Pierce's Meterological Observations made at Portsmouth, (N. H.) several times every day. Thursday Jan. 16, 1812.--Fahrenheit's Thermometer at sunrise; 4 above 0. Through the remainder of the day from 6 to 10 above 0. Friday Jan. 17.--Sunrise, 4 below 0. Through the remainder of the day from 0 to 10 above. Saturday, Jan. 18.--Sunrise, 7 below 0. In no part of the day did it, rise above 0 in the open air.-The cold continued to increase Saturday P. M. until eleven o'clock. At 8 o'clock Saturday ev'g it was 8 below 0; and at 9 o'clock, it was 10 below. This we believe to be the greatest extreme; after which it rose gradually until sunrise on Sabbath morning, when it stood at 5 below 0; but through the remainder of the day, it varied from two below to two above 0. Monday, Morning at sunrise, the Mercury stood at 0 and varied during the day from 0 to 4 above. A snow storm enhanced on Sabbath morning, with wind N. E. At no time was the Thermometer more than 4 degrees lower the cold Friday and Saturday of Jan. 12 and 20, 1810. Jan. 18 On Saturday night 18th inst. there was an extensive bursting of the earth at Salem, in consequence of the frost; and this circumstance gave rise to the report in our last of an Earthquake being experienced there. The N. York Evening Post says a black man was found on Saturday morning sitting erect on a porch corner of Beckman and Williams-Streets, frozen to death. Some extracts from a curious Circular in which a certain Chairman cuts a great figure, will be given in our next.

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