This Week In 1772 – St. Croix Destroyed

“On Monday Night last blew the most violent Hurricane that has ever been known”
– September 4, 1772

” a divine rebuke to human vanity and pomposity”
– Alexander Hamilton

29 Oct 1772, Page 1 – The Virginia Gazette at Newspapers.com

“every house almost at Christianstadt, and all the plantations and negro-houses leveled. Only three houses left standing at Frederickstadt, and numbers of people killed.”

Scots Magazine – Google Books

29 Oct 1772, Page 1 – The Virginia Gazette at Newspapers.com

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