No wonder my Sinclair family moved from Danville, VT to Perry, OH just about that time. Sandy McSpadden. "Paul E. Phillips" wrote: > Hi list, > > >From the Danville, VT, "North Star" of 15 June, 1816 > > "Some account was given .... of the unparalleled severity of the > weather. > It continued, without any essential amelioration, from the 6th to the > 10th instant - freezing as hard five nights in succession as it usually > does in December. On the night of the 6th, water froze an inch thick - > and on the night of the 7th and of the 8th, a kind of sleet or exceeding > cold snow fell, attended with high wind, which measured in places where > it drifted, 18 to 20 inches in depth. Saturday morning the weather was > more severe than it generally is during the storm of winter". > > Source: David M. Ludlum, "The Vermont Weather Book", Vermont Historical > Society, Montpelier, VT; 1996 > > Paul