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    1. [YORKSHIRE] Lightning Strikes Jos. SMITH's Farm. ( 1769 )
    2. >From Gazetter and New Daily Advertiser ( London, England ), Saturday, May 20, 1769; Issue 12 548. York, May 16. On the 3rd inst. in the afternoon, as a boy belonging to Jos. SMITH , a farmer, in very moderate circumstances, at Woodhall near Calverley, in the West Riding of this county, was harrowing with three horses in a field near his master's house, they were all struck down together by a violent flash of lightning, and the horses all killed on the spot; but the boy providentially received little harm, though when he came to himself, his whip was actually on fire in his hand.

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