This is just the beginning! Our collection holds over 300 years of history, including rare newspapers, obituaries, marriage records, birth records, and so much more—most of which you won’t find anywhere else!
Trade and Shipping Notes and Notable Appointments
A dense inventory records imports and exports by ship across Jamaica, Virginia, Holland, and Spain including coffee, indigo, rice, wheat, and ordnance. It notes a statue to Hans Sion in Chelsea, a fatal fly shower at Gravesends, wills and legacies of Thomas Bacon Townshend, and upcoming royal reviews at Hounslow Heath with multiple regiments. It also mentions a bank note donation to a public infirmary and various court and civic appointments in London and Maidstone.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Carolina
Virginia
Jamaica
Streights
Flanders
Spain
Portugal
Holland
Sir Hans Sion, Bart
Physick
Chelsea
Thames
Benjamin Hartis
Bihop
Landaff
Thomas Bacon Townshend
Capt. Townshend
Fergdsen
Berguson
Lime-street
Reynoldson
Hope
Fe’nnighs
Windsor
Michael Stanhope
Jones
Stanhope
James Beauclerc
Allan
Rutland
Eatoh
James Streee
Westminster
Bombay
France
Pattery
Angria
Derby
Anne Lamfley
Kew
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Berkeley
Aris
Hannah
Plant
Calais
Cadiz
Earl of Pembroke
Royal Regiment of Horse
Evans
Betey Germaine
Namure
Dutchess of
Dorset
Earl of Middlesex
Caroline Sackville
Col. Collyer
Prince and Princess of
Orange
Tilney Hall
Rotherwick
Wiscoune Castlemain
Bourdeaux
India
Bruges
Ostend
Committee of Treasury
Woolley
Canterbury
Bristol
Maidstone
Kent
Henry Benyon
George Champion
King’s Bench
Guildhall
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