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711 Indexed Records Spanning 1730 to 1977

October 9, 1821

9 Oct 1821

Shepherdstown Deaths From Disease

From Shepherdstown, in Virginia, we are sorry to learn, through the medium of the newspaper printed there, that the sickness, at this late period of the season, in that town, and still more in the neighborhood, […]

October 9, 1821

9 Oct 1821

Eastern Jefferson County Illnesses

SHEPHERDSTOWN, OCT. 3– The sickness in this Town, at the present time, exceeds any thing ever known in this place within the memory of the oldest inhabitant. There is scarcely a family that has not some […]

September 21, 1821

21 Sep 1821

Shepherdstown, Harpers Ferry Pestilence; Crops & Drought

SHEPHERDSTOWN, VA. SEPT. 12– We understand by a gentleman directly from Harper’s Ferry, that the disease which has been so malignant at that place, continues to rage with unabating violence. Never was it known to have […]

September 15, 1821

15 Sep 1821

Sickness Ravages Harpers Ferry

As certainly as one season of the year is less favorable to health than another, we must expect, during the present month, to hear of much sickness and increased mortality. Of one who is taken sick […]

July 21, 1821

21 Jul 1821

O’Donovan; Chemist

HARPERS FERRY, (Vir.) July 17.Medical Discovery.– Doctor T. C. Smith, of Dublin, lately obtained 5,800 premium from the English Parliament for the undermentioned recipe for Typhus malignant Fevers. Six drachms of powdered nitre, six drachms of […]

April 2, 1818

2 Apr 1818

Damaging Flooding; Harpers Ferry

The late rains have caused an almost unprecedented rise in the Potomac and Shenandoah rivers. Great damage has been done to mills, fences and other property situated on the margin of the rivers. At Harper’s Ferry, […]

March 31, 1818

31 Mar 1818

1818 Flooding – Potomac & Shenandoah

The late rains have caused an almost unprecedented rise in the Potomac and Shenandoah rivers. Great damage has been done to mills, fences, and other property situated on the margin of the rivers. At Harper’s Ferry, […]

July 9, 1817

9 Jul 1817

Daughter of Grymes, mangled at Saw Mill

A most distressing accident happened at the U. S. saw mill at Harper’s Ferry, on Friday, the 13th inst. A little girl, daughter of Mr. Grymes, had gone to the mill for the purpose of collecting […]

March 25, 1801

25 Mar 1801

York Farm Rental

To be Rented,TWO valuable PLANTATIONS, situate in Chanceford township, York county, The one known by the name of the BROGUE, an ancient Tavern, with a good house, good stabling, meadows, and orchard. The other in the […]

December 6, 1800

6 Dec 1800

Harper’s Ferry.

“The passage of the Potowmac through the Blue ridge is perhaps one of the most stupendous scenes in nature. You stand on a very high point of land. On your right comes up the Shenandoah, having […]

October 30, 1799

30 Oct 1799

8th Regiment to be stationed in Harpers Ferry

WINCHESTER, October 23.On Sunday morning last the 8th Regiment struck their tents on the commons near this town, and marched for Harper’s Ferry, on the Potomak, where, we understand, they are to be stationed during the […]

October 8, 1799

8 Oct 1799

US Purchases 166 Acres at Harpers Ferry

It appears from a Winchester paper, that a canal is cutting at Harper’s Ferry to turn the machinery for manufacturing gun barrels; and that Col. Lear I[?] purchased for the United States 166 acres of land, […]

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