{"id":1865,"date":"2012-10-11T16:42:02","date_gmt":"2012-10-11T16:42:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.genealogybank.com\/?p=1865"},"modified":"2012-10-11T16:43:27","modified_gmt":"2012-10-11T16:43:27","slug":"colonial-fire-tally-genealogy-records-saved-wines-liquors-lost","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/colonial-fire-tally-genealogy-records-saved-wines-liquors-lost.html","title":{"rendered":"Colonial Fire Tally: Genealogy Records Saved, Wines &#038; Liquors Lost"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On 13 December 1747 a \u201cmost terrible Fire\u201d broke out in Boston, MA.<\/p>\n<p>It was just after six o\u2019clock in the morning when the \u201cWatch\u201d spotted the flames at the Court House. The building was a total loss: the \u201cspacious and beautiful Building, except the bare Walls, was entirely destroyed.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>It was an intense fire that lit up the skies of Beantown that cold winter night. \u201cThe Vehemence of the Flames occasioned such a great Heat, as to set the Roofs of some of the opposite Houses on Fire, notwithstanding they had been covered with Snow, and were extinguished with much Difficulty.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>All was not a total loss, however.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1866\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1866\" style=\"width: 324px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/new-york-gazette-or-weekly-post-boy-newspaper-0104-1748-boston-fire.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1866\" title=\"new-york-gazette-or-weekly-post-boy-newspaper-0104-1748-boston-fire\" src=\"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/new-york-gazette-or-weekly-post-boy-newspaper-0104-1748-boston-fire.png\" alt=\"newspaper article about a fire at the Boston Court House, New-York Gazette or Weekly Post-Boy 04 January 1748\" width=\"324\" height=\"442\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/new-york-gazette-or-weekly-post-boy-newspaper-0104-1748-boston-fire.png 324w, https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/new-york-gazette-or-weekly-post-boy-newspaper-0104-1748-boston-fire-219x300.png 219w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 324px) 100vw, 324px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1866\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">New-York Gazette or Weekly Post-Boy (New York City, New York), 4 January 1748, page 2<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cBut thro\u2019 the Mercy of GOD, the County Records\u2026and part of the Province Records\u2026as also Copies of the Minutes of Council from the Beginning to 1737\u2026were happily saved.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The survival of these important genealogy records is good news to genealogists today who are researching their Colonial ancestry, and no doubt was a relief to government officials at the time.<\/p>\n<p>There was one loss from the historical Boston fire, however, that likely was particularly painful to more than a few:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn the Cellars which were hired by several Persons, a great Quantity of Wines and other Liquors were lost, to the amount of several Thousand Pounds.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On 13 December 1747 a \u201cmost terrible Fire\u201d broke out in Boston, MA. It was just after six o\u2019clock in the morning when the \u201cWatch\u201d spotted the flames at the Court House. The building was a total loss: the \u201cspacious and beautiful Building, except the bare Walls, was entirely destroyed.\u201d It was an intense fire [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[12713],"tags":[3,2526,1059,2530,2522,5292,2527,1658,2233,2528,12,2525,465,443,1067,878,5366,27,2529,5426],"class_list":["post-1865","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-genealogy-research-tips","tag-ancestry","tag-beantown","tag-boston","tag-colonial-ancestry","tag-county-records","tag-court","tag-court-houses","tag-family-history-2","tag-family-research","tag-fires","tag-genealogy","tag-genealogy-records","tag-historical-newspapers","tag-ma","tag-massachusetts","tag-new-york-city","tag-news","tag-newspapers","tag-province-records","tag-records"],"acf":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1865","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1865"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1865\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1865"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1865"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1865"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}