Conflicting Dispatches on Howe Washington Battle at White Plains
Readers receive mixed reports from Nov 2 letters and New York gazette extracts about General Howe pursuing Washington after the rebel camp fled toward White Plains. Descriptions claim Washington abandoned lines, cannon losses, and heavy troop desertions, with speculation of Congress retreat and European embassies.
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White Plains
Howe
Washington
Old Copland
New York
Evelyn
Carr
France
Spain
Congress
Philadelia
Franklin
Versailles
Europe
Lord Howe
Lord George Germaine
King’s Bridge
Fort Wathington
General Howe
Lord Percy
Fort Weathington
England
New-York
New England
Col
Musgrove
Evelin
North
Jerseys
Lee
Major Stewart
Connecticut
Paris
Franklin Ie
America
Dublin
Delaware
Drury Lane quarrel ends in fatal temple blow
In an intoxicated altercation at a Drury Lane public house two bricklayers fought. One struck the other with a pewter quart-pot, severing an artery and causing immediate death. The assailant fled. Also noted is James Templer jun. Ey. wedding to Mrs Mary Buller, niece to the Lord Chancellor at Morvall Cornwall.
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Drury-lane
Morvall
Cornwall
James Templer
Mary Buller
Slave Lottery 1775 shares sold at Hazars Lottery Office
The Trockets are sold and divided into halves quarters eighths and sixteenths by Hazars and Co stock brokers at their state lottery office No 93 under the Royal Exchange and nowhere else on their account All shares sold at the above office will be stamped with the Crown and found it Hazard's Lottery Office.
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Hazars and Co
Royal Exchange
N.B
Hazard
Strate Lottery Offers 100 Pound Prize for One Shilling
An advertisement by Joan Furrer and Co announces a state lottery at offices in Stow-hill and Gray's Inn Lane. For one shilling a number enters 46 chances including 100 pounds for first or last drawn, 20 000 pounds prizes, and smaller awards. The ad notes bank security, returns, and that chances are available through news carriers.
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Pieves
Rockingham
Gray
St. Domingo
Barradoes
Montgomery
Foster
Salem
Savage
Pomona
New York
Vienna
Moravia
Bohemia
Petersburgh
Black Sea
Porte
Stuart
Genfetnichew
Genoa
Spain
Gibraltar
Morocco
Tangiers
Czarina
Russia
Mediterranean
Admiral Younge
Leeward Island
Agnes
Mather
Dover
Antigua
River Tay
Loch Tay
Scotland
Archibald Campbell
Earl of
Breadalbane
Perth
Britain
Whitechapel
Guildhall
Richardson and Goodluck
King’s Mews
Charing Cross
Cornhill
Sool
King-street
Cheapside
Birehin-lane
Rowland Watson
Kighley
County of York
High Court of Chancery
Enfield
Perkyns
Thames Street
Strate Lottery
Joan Furrer and Co
Little Old Bailey
St. Sepulchre’s Church
Stow-hill
Gray’s-inn-lane
King’s-road
London
N.B
Bank of England
Girildina Royal India Composition Sold by S Gifford
A known depilatory named Girildina Royal India Composition is advertised as permanently removing facial hair without harming delicate skin. It is sold by appointment at S Gifford's milliner in Lincoln’s Inn Fields, price one guinea per ounce with directions. minimum quarter ounce. merchants and ships' commanders supplied and letters post paid.
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Girildina
Royal India
S. Gifford’s
Milliner
Serle-street
Lincoln's
Inn-Fields
England
Kennedy
W. Bayley
Cockspur-street
A. Rothwell
New Bond-street
F. Newbery
Ludgate-street
St. Paul's Church-yard
J Price
Leadenhall-street
J. Grosvenor
Chancery Lane
Halborn
Price
The
Box
Sir Walter Raleigh
High Water at London Bridge Forecast
Water level predictions trace a sequence around London Bridge with fluctuating times noted for the morning and afternoon periods across multiple days. The record lists shoreline indicators and accompanying dates in a historical style.
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London Bridge
Ambiguous Historic Bank Stock Prices and Bonds Note
A fragmented market note lists prices for stock and bonds including Bank Stock India ditto, South Sea ditto, Old and New Ann ditto, 3 percent and 4 percent bonds, India Anns, Exchequer Bills, and Navy bills. Times and clarity are limited, with references to 1726 and 1758 indicating years, and entries show rates like g per Cent and 3 per Cent.
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India
Bank
Navy
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Posscript
New-York Gazette
Falmouth
Lakes
Khigy
Meuch
Philadelphia
Nout
Suffolk
Trydag
Brookhaven
William Tryon
John Brush
Brook-Haven
Islip
Huntingdon
Smith-town
Southold
Southampton
Easthampton
Edw. Hawke
John Kent
J. Wallis
C. Stonehouse
Yorick’s Head
Richard II
Sir Francis Drake
Admiral Tyrred
G. Ditto
Sir Edward Hawke
Marshal Conflins
Admiral Hawke
M. de la Clue
Bofcawer
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