Punitive Act Against Traitors in Colony General Assembly
A General Assembly act prescribes death and forfeiture for inhabitants found guilty of traitorous correspondence with Great Britain or aiding its forces. It also excludes Town Council negotiations with Captain Wallace regarding warship supplies from the act. The measure to take effect in ten days requires publication in Providence Gazette and Newport Mercury.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
America
Providence
Ruppelstanp
General Assembly
Ministry of Great Britain
United Colonies
Ministry of
Great Britain
Wallace
Newport
Providence Gazette
Newport Mercury
Winess
Williamsoergh and Hampton Civil War Skirmish Report
Reports allege ministerial forces lost twenty one of their squadron at Hampton with seven prisoners taken. North Carolina volunteers are said ready to join, possibly six hundred under Col Howe near a borough. King Fisher and tenders bombarded Burwell's ferry. a boat was fired on, then heavy cannonading followed damaging the water side storehouse and ferry house with no injuries recorded. The fleet remain off the ferry.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
King - Fisher Sloop of War
Burwell
Royal American Regiment
Perry
Mary Transport
Portsmouth
Boston
Boston Harbour
Nantucket Road
Bofan
Clinton
Charles’Town
Agnew
Constantinople
Egypt
Syria
Morea
Janissaries
Russia
Black Sea
Paris
Carleton
Quebec
Nantz
France
Great Britain
Montréal
Calais
Virginia
Congress
Toe Ortawa Curer's Reply to a Speech of the Commissioner
A condolence message from Toe Ortawa Curer responding to a speech by the Commissioner. He mourns the loss of his father, who was killed in a war with the Tawas, an Indian nation, and presses for recognition of the family’s sacrifice. The note reflects frontier tensions and migratory era grievances.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Detroit
Council
Young Field
Toe Ortawa
Shegenaba Sons Pondiack Preserve Field Legacy
Shegenaba, son of the famed Pondiack, is noted as the preserver of young Field, carrying on a family legacy linked to the land and its youth. The reference highlights lineage and stewardship passing to a younger generation within a historic line.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Shegenaba
Pondiack
Young Field
Drowned boys after ice breaks near Smockington Leicestershire
News from Smockington Leicestershire reports three boys aged eight or younger drowned after the pond ice broke while they went sliding. In York Levi Saul a Jewish rabbi was baptized as Paul during a church service at St Michael le Belfrey by Rev Richardson.
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Northampton
Smockington
Leicestershire
York
Levi Saul
Paul
St. Michael le Belfrey
Richardson
Windy citation of ships and arrivals at ports
The notice lists vessels such as Remains a Dutch East- Indiaman passing by Royal George, and ships Boyd, Bohemia, Bosmuff from Gibraltar, Joyce from Leghorn. It records arrivals at ports including Philadelphia Morris Bell from Hamburgh and Leghorn St George Machel from Newfoundland, with Newfoundlands Friendship Rhodes from St Eustatia.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dear
Wind N. W
Gravesend
Royal George, Boyd
Bohemia
Bosmuff
Gibraltar
Joyce
Leigh
Leghorn
Philadelpha
Morris
Bell
Hamburgh
Continental Congress
Cowes
Faros
N. E
Gosport
Boreas
Romney
Elphinston
Newfoundland
London News Roundup on Military Promotions and Quebec Surrender
A London summary reports Lord Townshend presenting a list of artillery promotions signed by the king. It notes the Lady of Henry Seymour and Miss Seymour presented at St James's, royal reviews at Clapham Common, and plans to embark for America. Then it outlines Quebec capitulation linked to Montreal and Montgomery, plus regimental reorganizations and naval movements.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
St. James’s
Lord Townshend
Henry Seymour
Evesham
Clapham Common
Foot
Minorca
Duke of Argyle
America
Montgomery
Montreal
Quebec
Col. Arnold
Carleton
Hanover
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Chatham
Sheerness
Mars
George Falconer
Ardent
Charles Middleton
Davis
Repulse
Theliis
Charles
Douglas
Lig
Corke
Rfrist
Portsmouth Harbour
Spithead
Dickson
Union East Indiaman
Kinsale
Minerva
Mellick
Downs
Bienenstock
Jochim Ohlsen
Cadiz
Malone
Falkland
Newcastle
Grenada
Pakefield
Suffolk
St. Catherine’s
Sussex
Blackwall
Falkland’s Island
Chester
Alderman Bull
Guildhall
Compter
Charles Asgill
Canterbury
Stour
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