Hello, In this morning's "MassMoment" e-mail, there is the story of a "great fire" which happened in Boston in - 1760. (Even ships were destroyed.) http://www.massmoments.org:80/moment.cfm?mid=86 We're heard of "great fires" in major cities before, but mostly in regards to the 1800's. It's not too often we hear of great fires in the 1700's. Betty (near Lowell, MA) FYI: http://www.celebrateboston.com/disasters/fires/greatbostonfire.htm http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Boston_Fire_of_1872 http://massmoments.org/moment.cfm?mid=323