Harper's encyclopædia of United States history from 458 1906, based upon the plan of Benson John Lossing .. . ied in Leicester, Nov. 19. and New York. Among her publi- Earle, Thomas, statesman ; born in Lei-cations are The Sabbath in Puritan New eester, Mass., April 21. 1796: removed to 174 EARLY—EARTHQUAKES Philadelphia in 1817; he edited succes- tinued thunder, and the shock lasted about sively The Columbian Observer, Standard, four minutes. The earth shook with such Pennsylvania n, and Meoha/nics Free Press violence that in some places the people and Reform Advocate. He w
Harper's encyclopædia of United States history from 458 1906, based upon the plan of Benson John Lossing .. . ied in Leicester, Nov. 19. and New York. Among her publi- Earle, Thomas, statesman ; born in Lei-cations are The Sabbath in Puritan New eester, Mass., April 21. 1796: removed to 174 EARLY—EARTHQUAKES Philadelphia in 1817; he edited succes- tinued thunder, and the shock lasted about sively The Columbian Observer, Standard, four minutes. The earth shook with such Pennsylvania n, and Meoha/nics Free Press violence that in some places the people and Reform Advocate. He was a member could not stand upright without diificulty, of the Pennsylvania constitution conven- and many movable articles in the houses tion of 1837, and is believed to have draft-ed the new constitution. He died in Phila-delphia, July 14, 1849. Early, Jubal Anderson, military offi-cer; born in Franklin county, Va., Nov. were thrown down. The earth was unquietfor twenty days afterwards. On Jan. 26,1663, a heavy shock of earthquake wasfelt in New England and in New York,and was particularly severe in Canada,. JUBAL A. EARLT. 3, 1816; graduated from West Point in where it was recorded that the doors1837, and served in the Florida war the opened and shut of themselves with asame year. In 1838 he resigned his com- fearful clattering. The bells rang witji-raission and studied law. In 1847 he out being touched. The walls were split asunder. The floors separated andfell down. The fields put on the appear-ance of precipices, and the mountainsseemed to be moving out of their rivers were dried up; some moun-tains appeared to be much broken andmoved, and half-way between Quebec andTadousac two mountains were shakendown, and formed a point of land extend-ing some distance into the St. Oct. 29, 1727, there was a severeearthquake in New England, lasting abouttwo minutes. Its course seemed to befrom the Delaware River, in the south-west, to the Kennebec, in the no
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