Noble birth vs brewing a family rift in argument
In a heated exchange Sir Orl and Mr Sol dispute marrying for money over noble lineage. They debate alliances and risk to family honor as they consider a son’s future, with Sol proposing a brewer’s venture while Orl warns it would stain Vavafor’s name.
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Sol
Catenton-street
Orl
Vava
Venter
Mr. Sol. O
Lord Touchit
Sir Orl
Alderman Sweetwort
Mr. Sol
Vavafor
Ager
Charles
Sir Ori
Corn Exchange
Transatlantic notices from Newport and Belfast reports
The Newport Mercury discusses Jamaica earthquake rumors and Loyalist prisoner executions in North Carolina. A Belfast letter recounts Hearts of Steel engagement near a Seceder meeting-house, a hidden passage, and prisoners. Additional notes cover a fatal sparrow-hunting accident in Blewbury and the Baraboo slave-ship mutiny near Cape Mount.
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America
Boston
New Englanp
Newport Mercury
Kingston
Jamaica
Rhode Island
Newbern
North Carolina
Said
Dublin
Belfast
Upton
Blewbury
Smith
Liverpool
Barbadoes
Potts
Baffa
Anama‘oe
Sierreleon
Cape Mount
Ship arrivals and port list from Aug 18 historical record
A fragmented OCR list of ships arriving and sailing to various ports. Names include the Charming Sally, Sally, Rainer, Duke, Edward and Mary, Friendship, Jamaica bound ships, and multiple vessels from Waterford Cork London Liverpool Barcelona Gibraltar and Kingston. Numerous master names and origins such as Wooler Hyslop Parry Parry Ohman Tobin and more.
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Sally
Rainer
Arbacwes
Dt Dostry
Harris
Industry
Brooker
Chichester
William
Cro
Guerfey
Hawk
Worze
Cork
Knowler
Denia
Love
Palmore
Sewel
Maryland
Ebbe- Yrogan
Barker
Norway
Tocer
Nave
Oilvie
Barcelona
Jenny
Hyslop
Cato ‘Bay
Botton Packet
Lyde
Gor
Madeir
de Chanteloupe
Tobin
James
Roche
Friendship
Dunn
London
Jamaica
Briggs
Liverpool
Livepool
Clayton
Hind
Betty
Parry
Virginia
Gibraltar
Mary
Moor
Catharina, Ohman
Gorttenburgh
Falmouth
Polly
Thompson
New York
Speedwell
Kennett
Plymouth
Norman
Benson
Riga
Dispatch
Wallis
North - Carolina
Jonge Eveland
Stormond
Holland
Cowes
Recovery
Bul
Rotterdam
Ae Tolt
Kingston Packet
Mattocks
Golden Grove
S~ith
William, Clark
North- Carolina
Woodhouse
Honduras
Charming Sally
Harrison
Lisbon
Nancy
Pine
Peter and
Howards
Governor blocks tax bill in colony debate over officers' duties
Cambridge July 4 177X The governor refuses to sign an act taxing Crown officers for profits from commissions, citing his Majesty's instruction. House committees draft remonstrance opposing broad tax power, insisting local residents pay fair taxes and denying special exemption for officials. Prolonged session ends with prorogation and a formal message to the Crown.
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Boston
New England
Tfuly
Cambridge
House of Representatives
General Court
A&ts
Great Britain
T. Hutchinson
North America
General Assembly
Council
William Bollan
Dennys de Berdt
Cambrilee
Purg
Boflen
d’Ennery
Martinico
Marseilles
Hope
Goldsmith
Bristol
London
Margate
William
Dixon
Jamaica
Spithead
Lincoln’s Inn-Fields
Clare-market
Yo,co
Freeman's Court
Cornhill
Vauxhall
Battersea
Kilburn
James Benet
Hebberton
Suffolk
Cheapside
Epping-forest
Gibson
Covent Garden Theatre
Christopher Taylor
Filly
Norfolk
Gibson Lucas
James Sutherland
26Th Regiment of Foot
Patrick Montcriet
Archibald Edmonstone
Argyllstreet
John Carell
Twickenham
Nicholas Hawkins
Cannon-street
Jonathan Henthaw
Lisbon
Wheeler
Strand
Exeter
George Strogal
Kingston
Taunton
Somersetshire
Winpenny
Berwick-street
Soho
John Vickers
High Holborn
Hoyland
Ann Molun
George Mohun
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Long-Acre
Fola
Leicester-house
Prince of Wales
Dfnaburgh
Hamipton Court
Charles Proby
Hanover
Todd
Buckingham
Northunberland
Orford
Warwick
Cape of Good Hope
Sheerness
Hornet
Swift
Greyhound
Irish
Paris
St. Denis
Barriere Blanche
Partillion
Fred
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