Earthquake at Cape Haytien, Santo Domingo, which destroyed nearly two-thirds of the town; between 4,000 and 5,000 lives were lost.
“Let us urge forward our spirits, and make them approach the invisible world, and fix our mind upon immaterial things, till we clearly perceive that these are no dreams; nay, that all things are dreams and shadows besides them.”
–Henry Scougal, The Life of God in the Soul of Man