NEWSPAPER ACCOUNTS
The
Maryland Gazette
'Containing the Freshest Advices, Foreign and
Domestic'
Wednesday,
February 21, 1750
No. 252
We had yesterday a violent storm of Snow; and in the Evening one John Pursley, a staymaker on the North Side of Severn, going home from a Wedding, lost himself within a few Yards of a House, and was this Morning found dead.
Source: Maryland State Archives film : MSA SC M 1278
Transcriber's note: The Maryland Gazette newspaper, founded in 1727 by William Parks, served the Annapolis, Maryland area in 1750.