London and Foreign Ships Arrive at Gravesend Listing Names
Wind S W at Gravesend records arrivals of multiple ships from Maryland Jamaica Norway Barbadoes Oporto Riga Riga and New England. Vessels include Sudbury Banstead Home Donkin Rebecca Alexander Anne Morris Loyal Charles Neptune Blefsing Abbey Bell Frear Hallifax Bal gikk Merchant Me diterranean and others with destinations like Bristol Streights Lisbon Plymouth and Ireland.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Patty
Whiteside
Virginia
Elephant
Saunders
Plymouth
Wentworth
Sax
Portugal
Ann
Fearing
Lisbon
Dorset
Cave
Ireland
Sudbury
Mackenzie
Petersburg
Bristol
Banstead
Newcastle
Streights
Wind S. W
London
Jars
Maryland
Rebecca
Joyce
Alexander
Anne
Cloymer
St. Christophers
Morris
Myres
Charles
Way
Jamaica
Neptune
Major
Stockholm
Blefsing
Chapman
Abbey
Bell
Norway
Frear
Richardson
Barbadoes
Hallifax
Progter
Oporto
Balgick
Coiley
Riga
Mediterranean
Harris
New England
Verses and notices from a London paper on learning and trade
A fragmentary London letter frays into verse praising ancient learning and modern reform, notes on Carolina memory honors, and impending English residence of the king in Holland. It reports deaths of Paul Jervice, Mrs Hunt, and others, plague news from Smyrna, a new East India Company ship Harrington launched at Blackwall, a horse race at Tylehurk Heath, Earl of Marr’s burial, and election results for Edinburgh deacons with stock market prices and local storm damages Alloa045
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
England
Holland
Nottingham
Paul Jervice Esq
Mile End
Hunt
John Hunt
Dorothy
Morley
Turku
Smyrna
Turkey
Blackwall
East India Company
Harrington
Harrison
Tylehurk- Heath
Reading
Earl of Marr
Edinburgh
John MacGill
Goldsmiths
Hugh Gordon
Furriers
James Lothian
Wrights
James Hunter
Fletners
Alexander Clarke
Cordners
Thomas Dick
William Home
John Miller
Alloa
Moor-field wagers and London crime round up 1732
A jumble of 18th century notes reports a horse named 4 Horse with the Earl of Portmore winning a 25 J. Plate, a Moor-fields wager under 16 minutes, a Kingston servant girl’s suicide amid courtship troubles, a Battersea drowning, a Pancras footpad robbery of a watch 135 and hat wig, two condemned robbers gravely ill in Newgate, a red wood theft at the Custom House, and East India Company court proceedings on bond credits and a scheduled ballot for bond exchange on October 26.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Earl of Portmore
Woodburn
Kingston Upon Thames
Winter
Battersea
Thames
Brown
Hoxton
Hampstead
Pancrasy
Lewis de Vie
Paul Cray
Newgate
Abraham Elton Esq
Sir Richard Brocas
London merchant selling neat brandy at six shillings sixpence a gallon
Tuomas Exurs a London wine merchant in Seething Lane advertises imported neat brandy sold at 6s 6d per gallon cash on delivery with no adulteration. He promises large upcoming consignments for tasting on the Keys and daily attendance at his Seething Lane house and Tom's Coffee House Cornhill for orders before noon and after.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tuomas Exurs
Seething-Lane
Tower-Street
London
Exrys
Tom
Cornhill
Union Fire Office Directors to Ballot for Year Ensuing
The Union Fire Office Society for in firing Goods and Merchandizes from Loss by Fire gives notice of its half yearly general meeting. Directors for the year ensuing will be chosen by ballot at the office in Gutter Lane Cheap Side. The meeting starts Tuesday 26th from nine in the morning to six in the evening and adjourns till tomorrow at four in the afternoon for all injured in the office to attend.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Union Society
Gutter Lane
Cheapside
Also Mentioned on This Page
Datuy Courant
Lincolnfire
Richmond
Greece
Italy
Newton
Locke
Clarke
Woellaffong
Carolina
Cajar
Caroline
South Sea
Bank
India
Royal AM
London Assurance
York
Ealt-India House
United Company
East- Indies
Union Fire Office
Charitable Corporation
Profodia Pharmaceutica
James Allexne
Tuo
Astley
The
Rose
S. Austen
Angel
Bible
St. Paul’s Churchyard
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