Mr. Neal Thompson Gardner, of Canton, Ohio, found the following in clipping form in the Ohio Repository, a very early newspaper located in Northeast Ohio. Neal has given me permission to use the clipping on my website. Thank you, Neal.

Ohio Repository (now the Canton Repository)
issue: Friday, March 1, 1833
Page 3, Column 4

- On the 8th Ult (February) a fire broke out in Watertown, N.Y. which destroyed the tanworks and oil mill of Mr. Fairbanks - the paper mill and printing office of Knowlton and Rice, and the morroco factory and dwelling of Kiltz and Carpenter, with most of their contents: loss $40,000 of which only $5,000 was insured.

(from the research of Neal Thompson Gardner, Canton, Ohio)