Port Fitzroy Letter from Botany Bay Sailor 1790
An extraordinary letter from a Port Fack ton settler on Botany Bay dated April 9 1790 describes dire shortages of provisions and powder, illness, and harsh discipline. The writer laments delayed relief from England, hopes for naval aid, and notes the misery of convicts and families, while requesting needles and blue thread to mend worn Woolwich dress.
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England
Cape
Norfolk Island
London
Woolwich
Stamp Duties Farm Notice and Taunton Sale Also
The notice advertises letting the stamp duties for horse travel posts in Somerset Place to farm for three years from February 1. Proposals must be delivered three days before January 4 with names and abode. bidding by persons licensed to let horses is restricted. Also a peremptory sale in Taunton of a customary estate near Kingston comprising a stone house, 3 acres of orchard and 130 acres arable, meadow and pasture, in the parish of Kingston, to be held January 19 at 3 p.m. at the Castle Tavern.
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Frimley
Willey
Turnpke
Basingstone
Bagshott
Surrey
Farnham
Alton
Alresford
Winchester
Benjamin Nichols
Penury
George the
William Shotter
Durham Gateshead
William Methuen
Gateshead Association
John Warburton
Cramer Dyke-Howle
Gateshead
Fenny Fall
John Gallendery
Cramer Dyke House
Colle&ion
Bodes
Wan Ete Butler
Pinelli
James Robson
New Bonds Street
Davies Holborn
Law
Avemary Lane
Sewell
Cornhill i
Painters Stainers Company
London
Little Trinity Lane
Queenhithe
John Stock
Pondon
T. Tomlins
Miller
John Farley
London Tavern
J. Scatcherd
J. Whitaker
Be Law
Avemaria-lane
G. and
T. Wilkie
Remmig
Samuel Griffith
Bennet S-Treet
Princes-street
Great George-street
Westminsters
Howell
High Holborn
Red-Lion-Street
Stamp-Office
Somerset-Place
Vrs Hoy
His
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His Majesty
Treasury
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High Court of Chancery
Casle ‘Tavern
Taunton
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Kingston
Taunton-Deane
James Dyer
Bridgwater
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Symond
Otawa
Frica
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Glebe
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Holborn
Temple Coffee-House
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Africa
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Soss
J. Johnson
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C. Stalker
Stationer
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County of Mérioneth
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MaSer
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Uae
Bindley
Baillie
R. Tickell
Byng
Fawkner
Robinson Crusoe
Stoddart
Medland
Daniel DE Foe
George Chalmers
J. Stockdale
Piccadilly
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Riley
Amelia
G. Riley
Ludgate Street
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Bath
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