An essay for the recording of illustrious providences

In the Year 1678. on the 29th. of June, at Cambridge in New-England; A Thunderclap with Lightning broke into the next house to the College. It tore away and shattered into pieces a considerable quantity of the Tile on the Roof thereof. In one Room there then happened to be the Wife of John Benjamin (Daughter to Thomas Swetman, the Owner of the House) who then had an Infant about two Months old in her Arms; also another Woman. They were all of them struck; the Child being by the force of the Lightning carried out of the Mothers Arms, and thrown upon the Floor some distance from her. The Mother was at first thought to be dead, but God restored her, though she lost the use of her Limbs for some considerable time. Her feet were singed with the Lightning, and yet no sign thereof appearing on her Shoes. Also the Child and the other ⟨p. 85⟩Woman recovered. In the next room were seven or eight persons who received no hurt. It was above a• quarter of an hour before they could help the persons thus smitten, for the room was so full of Smoke (smelling like Brimstone) that they could not see them. Some Swine being near the Door as the Lightning fell, were thrown into the House, and seemed de•d awhile, but afterwards came to life again. A Cat was killed therewith. A Pewter Candlestick standing upon a joint stool; some part of it was melted and carried away before the Lightning, and stuck in the Chamber floor over head, like Swan shot, and yet the Candlestick it self was not so much as shaken off from the Stool whereon it stood.

In the Year 1678. on the 29th. of June, at Cambridge in New-England; A Thunderclap with Lightning broke into the next house to the Colledge. It tore away and shattered into pieces a considerable quantity of the Tyle on the Roof thereof. In one Room there then hapned to be the Wife of John Benjamin (Daughter to Thomas Swetman, the Owner of the House) who then had an Infant about two Moneths old in her Arms; also another Woman. They were all of them struck; the Child being by the force of the Lightning carried out of the Mothers Arms, and thrown upon the Floor some distance from her. The Mother was at first thought to be dead, but God restored her, though she lost the use of her Limbs for some considerable time. Her feet were singed with the Lightning, and yet no sign thereof appearing on her Shoes. Also the Child and the other ⟨p. 85⟩