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First Appearance of Northern Lights in New England

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Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · May 24, 1870

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 35, No. 23.

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First Appearance of Northern Lights in New England.

By John Nevins Andrews

THE Northern Lights were not seen in this country till ninety-nine years after the landing of the Puritans at Plymouth. The following important statement is found in Willard's “Abridged History of the United States,” edition 1869, p. 146:
“A phenomenon, singular at the time, and not yet satisfactorily explained, alarmed the people of New England in 1719. This was the Aurora Borealis, first noticed in the country, on the night of the 17th of December. Its appearance, according to the writers of the day, was more calculated to excite terror than later appearances of the same kind.” J. N. A.