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Newspaper
General Evening Post
Location
London, Middlesex, United Kingdom
Date
Feb 09, 1775
Page
1
Boston December 22 Loyalists of Massachusetts Bay sign an association drafted by Brigadier-General Ruggles for mutual defence against opponents of lawful government as reported by the Massachusetts Gazette.
Arrivals at Gravesend and other forts include crews and vessels from Jamaica Maryland Virginia and Cape Fear. Ships from Philadelphia Malaga Antigua and London report crews including Niccolls Jett Gibson Moore Treacothick Moore Warren and others. The passage also notes arrivals from Yarmouth Ancona Denkirk L Orient and L’Orient with several ships and captains.
A crowd of thieves and disorderly figures were rounded up after an assault on Moorfields watch-house left a watchman dead. Others were sent to Bridewell or to Clerkenwell, with several women kept for hard labour. Additional arrests at Black-boy-alley and Guildhall followed, and two men faced Alderman Hopkins. A second watchman died from wounds sustained during the same flare up. Died: Fisher of Lamb's Conduit Street and Smith of Tozer's Grace Tozer's assembly-room Blackheath.
The House debates taxation without consent as the root of the dispute with America. The Lord Mayor and others oppose an Address backing government policy, warning it may trigger a revolution and ruin the empire. They urge reconciliation and restraint, citing American loyalty and the dangers of war.
By private treaty or auction on Thursday 23 Feb in the Greyhound, Faixingham, Lingato. Lots include four closes at West end of A R P B Aflacby manor, two closes to the Fen, a cottage and croft, Old Orchard clofe, and a small farm house with four closes. Two last lots to be sold together. Open for viewing at Lady-day. Inquiries to Lyon Agnes Lincoln or John Speight Aflachy.
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