History of Antrim, New Hampshire, USA

"For several days previous the air was full of smoky vapors, as if fires had been burning in the woods, the sun and moon appearing red and somewhat obscured. The early morning of May 19 was cloudy and showery and cool, with some thunder and lightning. But about ten o'clock, when the artisans were busy in the shop and mill, the women spinning and weaving, and the farmers hurrying with their spring work in the field, it began to grow dark. The wild birds screamed and flew to their nests, — the hens went to their roosts, — the cattle came up, uttering strange cries, to their stalls, — the sheep, bleating woefully, huddled under the fences, — the buds and small leaves on the trees were colored almost to an indigo blue, — robins and blue-birds flew into the houses as if they sought the protection of man, — the rain that soon followed was full of a substance like burnt vegetable matter, forming a scum, with smell of soot, over everything, collecting on the Merrimack river here and there to...

The building was raised June 28, 1785. The first town meeting held in the meeting-house was Sept. 15, 1785, though it was only a frame partly covered.

"1794 May 18th' A Remarkable Hard frost on Saturday the 17' wass a very heavy gale of wind, from the norwest, and extreme Cold. On the morning of the Eighteenth, the water in tubs wass froze, one inch thick, and watter Emptied out of a tar kittle, on the ground, Condeuced into ice, as fasst as it Struck the ground ; and the wheat, Barley, oats, and flax, wass intirely Cut off ; and Rye in general wass very much damaged, and in many plaisse totaly Cut off."

"A remarkable snow-storm came Oct. 7, 1804, covering the ground, in this town, more than a foot deep with snow."

"There were two hundred cases and forty deaths, in two months."