A new article has been added at Newspaper Abstracts > United States > Pennsylvania > Philadelphia http://www.newspaperabstracts.com/index.php?action=displaycat&catid=1710 Direct link to article: http://www.newspaperabstracts.com/link.php?id=51400 Submitted by: Gigimo Article Title: The American Weekly Mercury Article Date: December 5 1728 Article Description: House Fires. Article Text: Philadelphia, December 5. On Sunday last, about one a clock in the morning, a dreadful fire broke out at the house of one Theophelus SPURYORS, a Bisket Baker in Chestnut-Street, which consumed the said dwelling house and all the houshold goods, bake-house, and brew-house to ashes also two other houses adjoining, were burnt down, there were several other houses in that rowe very much damnified, there was a great quantity of bisket and flower burnt. We have also an account from Kent County, upon Delaware, of a dreadful fire which happened there at the house of Mr. Benjamin SHERMOURS, which consumed his house and most of his houshold goods. ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ PA-Old-News ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ NewspaperAbstracts.com - Finding our ancestors in the news! TM http://www.NewspaperAbstracts.com