Great Chesapeake Bay Hurricane of 1769

[2] The storm caused significant damage in New Bern, North Carolina as tides rose 12 feet above normal.

[3][4] Governor William Tryon of North Carolina speculated that a "a blazing Planet or star" that passed through the sky in August may have been the cause of the storm.

Buildings that were destroyed included the destruction of the printing office of the North-Carolina Gazette, where the paper's type was buried in sand and had to be dug up.

Many old houses in eastern North Carolina and southeastern Virginia were destroyed, particularly around Williamsburg, York, Hampton, and Norfolk due to 13 hours of high winds from the northeast to northwest.

[1] At Harvard, John Winthrop measured the barometer at 29.57" at 10:15pm on September 8, which suggests that the storm traveled from just east of Williamsburg to Boston in 12 hours, at an average speed of about 40 mph.