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Navy Relieving Squadron Sailors Bound for Jamaica
Amid tangled notices in Dublin and Meath, a squadron to relieve Commodore Lestock sails not in Gibraltar but directe to Jamaica aboard a merchant ship with 300 pounds for voyage charges. The Dutchess Dowager of Marlborough gifts funds for Charis Hanbury Williams upon marriage to Francis Coningsby. Also reported: a naval board to commission ships, Patrick Mead’s funeral, Seamen pressed for sea service, and linen contract adverts with price terms and delivery rules.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
West Indies
Lestock
Gibraltar
Jamaica
Prances Coningsby
Coningsby
Msjor Hanbury
Duke of Malborough
Admiralty