Controversy over Pennsylvania Assembly and Loyalist Resolve
In Philadelphia letters Nov 10 recount the assembly's clash with the governor and merchants over defense and trade. The body rejects the governor’s coastal protection plan, denounces merchants as traitors, and adopts a three thousand pound royal tax pledge while criticizing past refusals to fund the governor. Portsmouth notes and port arrivals follow.
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England
Capes
Havanna
Great Britain
Pensilvania
Port News From Whitehaven to London and Barbadoes
Reports from Whitehaven and Cowes describe arrivals and departures of ships including the Penn cally Harris from Maryland, Haslemere for Madeira, Mufora from London for Barbadoes, and the Charles-town from Topshan bound for Gibraltar. Notices record appointive and judicial moves, fires in Rotherhithe, theft at Southwark, legal dispensations, and a fire in Wallingford Lane. The Gigantick Swede visit to the Royal Society is noted with admiration. High water at London Bridge listed.
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Whitehaven
Zan
Yetterday
Arriv
Penn Cally
Harris
Maryland
Falmouth
Fan
Owr Road
Haslemere
Walker
Madeira
London
Cowes
Mufora
Roe
Barbadoes
Charles-town
Godfrey
Topshan
Gibraltarymouth
His Majesty
Seips
Bridgwater
Rogers
Argyle
Harrison
P Cruize
Windham
Drummond
Portimahon
Betty Gally
Smith
Oporio
Thomas Robinson
Bart
Excise
Robert Byng
James Butler
East Grinstead
Earl of Middlesex
Sussex
Cirencester
Gloucestershire
John Evans
Baker
Southwark
Nathaniel Hayrick
Loddington
Worthampton
Portsmouth
Daniel Griffins
Daniel Griffins, B. L. To Hold the Rectory of South Stoke
Chichester
Leominster
Liminster
Theald
Thomas Howard
Lord Howard
Francis Earl of Effingham
John Seffe
Port of London
William Fawkes, Bart
Deceas
East India House
Court of Directors
Christopher Mold
Wallingford Lane
Rotherhithe
William Ford
Mitchief
Scott
Bankside
William Edmonds
Bridewell
Jamaica
St. Kitt’s
East India
Oportore
Dublin
Royal Society
London Bridge
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Philadelphia
Elizabeth
Wells
Deal
Ellis
Francis
Coates
East-India
John
Eliza
Finch
Shoreham
Mary
Holloway
Leghorn
New-York
Guernfey
Anne Galley
Ebbsworthy
Weymouth
Speedwell
Reynolds
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