“…Historical documents yield the highest frequency data out of all the proxy data types. To date, most of the successful historical climatological research has been focused on Europe and southeast Asia, but similar results have been derived for North America (Baron, 1982;Moodie and Catchpole, 1975;Catchpole and Ball, 1981;Rowntree, 1985;Lawson, 1974). Oliver and Kington (1970), Kington (1980), Douglas et al (1978), and Wilson (1985 demonstrated that historical documents can be used for synoptic weather reconstruction for daily and seasonal timescales.…”