[4] Rhode Island suffered the worst damage, as the storm surge flooded towns along Narragansett Bay up to and including Providence.

[6] The leaves on trees which were not blown away were covered with a white salt coating that resembled a light frost.

[8] The financial loss was estimated at one and a half million dollars, one-quarter the total valuation of the city.

[5] In Dorchester, Massachusetts, just south of Boston, local historian William Dana Orcutt wrote in the late 19th century of the hurricane's impact: "In 1815 there was a great gale which destroyed the arch of the bridge over the Neponset River.

[10] In the aftermath of the Great Gale, the concept of a hurricane as a "moving vortex" was presented by John Farrar, Hollis Professor of Mathematics and Natural Philosophy at Harvard University.

In an 1819 paper he concluded that the storm "appears to have been a moving vortex and not the rushing forward of a great body of the atmosphere".