Both describe high winds, 14 to 20 feet (4.3 to 6.1 m) storm surges along the south-facing coasts and great destruction.

Bradford also wrote that the storm drowned seventeen Indians, flattened many houses and toppled or destroyed thousands of trees.

The small barque Watch and Wait, owned by a Mr. Isaac Allerton, foundered in the storm off Cape Ann with twenty-three people aboard.

According to the accounts of Bradford and Winthrop, high surge swept over the low-lying tracts of Dorchester, ruining the farms and landscape.

James survived, but Angel Gabriel was wrecked at Pemaquid, Massachusetts Bay Colony (now Bristol, Maine).

[5] An account from The Cogswells in America states: "'The storm was frightful at Pemaquid, the wind blowing from the northeast, the tide rising to a very unusual height, in some places more than twenty feet right up and down; this was succeeded by another and unaccountable tidal wave still higher.'

The Angel Gabriel became a total wreck, passengers, cattle, and goods were all cast upon the angry waves.

Jarvinen also noted that the hurricane may have produced the highest storm surge along the East Coast in recorded history, at great than 20 feet (6.1 m) in the Narragansett Bay.