controlled, the tavern and the dwellings of John Gonter, Jr. and Mr. Briggs, were destroyed. A committee was appointed in Lancaster to receive donations for the unfortunate individuals whose property was thus destroyed. The Lancaster Journal of Friday, November 22nd, 1822, stated that a total of $400.75 had

paper, or papers, for each individual sufferer, to afford to each �contributor an opportunity of distributing his or her donation as he or she may think proper, an estimate being first incorporated. by said committee in each paper of the amount of the loss of each sufferer." In the Lancaster Journal of

the paltry sum of twenty cents (evidently the price charged at that time for sweeping a chimney), "he should be the cause of burning the prop- erty of his neighbor and turning his family out of doors." At a meeting of the citizens of Lancaster held at the court house on Thursday, the day following the

South-east Ward. By Messrs. J. Gundaker, Slough and Diffenbaugh 86.45 South-west Ward. By Mr. Hugh Wilson 143.60 $681.51 Adam Reigart, Jr., chief burgess of the borough of Lancaster, remitted this amount to the officials of Newburyport, and received the following acknowledgment: "Newburyport, Mass