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Great Colonial Hurricane of 1635

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Great Colonial Hurricane
hurricane
FormedAugust 1635
DissipatedAugust 25, 1635

The Great Colonial Hurricane of 1635 was a severe hurricane that hit the Massachusetts Bay Colony on August 25, 1635 (August 15, 1635 OS), fifteen years after the Pilgrims arrived. The storm's eye is believed to have passed between Boston and Plymouth. A letter from Governor William Bradford said that the storm drowned seventeen Native Americans and toppled or destroyed thousands of trees; many houses were also flattened. Although neither the Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Scale nor the equipment necessary to measure the storm's characteristics had yet been invented, contemporary descriptions are consistent with a Category 3 or greater hurricane.

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