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- GLC#
- GLC02437.05543-View header record
- Type
- Letters
- Date
- 17 July 1792
- Author/Creator
- Ogden, Samuel, 1746-1810
- Title
- to Henry Knox
- Place Written
- Morrisville, Pennsylvania
- Pagination
- 1 p. : Height: 23.3 cm, Width: 19.2 cm
- Primary time period
- The New Nation, 1783-1815
- Sub-Era
- The Early Republic
Writes about an earthquake that hit Quebec "By a letter from Quebec of the 5th Instant - I find they had a most violent Earthquake on the 6th Decr - a vulcano [sic] broke out about 70 miles north - the light so great as to be seem at Quebec in the night." Mentions that the shakes continued for a day and a town 40 miles from the volcano received damage. Comments on an Indian raid, "The Indian Acct (very untrue) 1000 Indians engaged - Killed & wounded of our people, left on the field upwards of 1000!" Noted as written at "D Works," which is most likely Delaware Works, located in what is now Morrisville, Pennsylvania, near Trenton, New Jersey. Dated added later in red ink.
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