the plague in 1710 halved the number of residents, although in 1720 there were enough people to justify building a brewery in the marketplace. By 1720, starost Jan Ignacy Dzialynski built a new impressive Baroque palace, as the seat of the starosts. There was yet another town fire in 1767, destroying the brewery, the Church and the Town Hall.

During the first partition of Poland in 1772, the region