Severe winter weather halts travel and provokes fatalities
Country news from Cantersbury and Salifury report impassable roads due to deep snow. Mails delayed from London and other coast towns as villages dig caverns through snow. Dorchester notes a dragoon found dead after a night ride. Ride to Portsmouth boat passenger(s) feared dead after boat found bottom-up. Newcastle reports ongoing heavy snow with woods inaccessible except turnpikes. Mr George Pollard goes missing then found dead near Hartlepool market in a three-foot snow wreath.
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Port records new arrivals and ship movements
In early January reports show wind conditions and captures of remaining bomb Carcass for various destinations including Jamaica and Tortola. Arrivals list ships at Plymouth Genoa Cadiz Portsmouth Dover Cork Leghorn with crews from Whitehaven Dublin Yarmouth and London sailing to or from destinations such as Jamaica Nevis and Maryland.
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Wappingwall
le Paul
Shadwell
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Maidenlane
Samuel Haine
Lothbury
Aberdeen Nobles Elect Frederick Stewart MP In 1775 Britain
In Aberdeen the Noblemen and Freeholders elect Hon Frederick Stewart to represent Ayr Irvine Rothsay Cambelteun and Inverary in Parliament succeeding Sir George W Carmey who became Governor of Grenada. A Bristol letter notes ships bound for Boston and gifts for troops including shoes are planned, amid reports of Gaspee Bay burning and Newport bombardment.
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