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General Evening Post

Location

London, Middlesex, United Kingdom

Date

Jan 27, 1776

Page

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London Gazette Notices and Appointments Report

From the London Gazette January entries list R Lucas Pepys appointing Philipine Gracelinary as a royal officer sworn in. Surgeons Extraordinary John Gunoing and John Hunter are likewise appointed and worn into office. A request to present Henry Wood to the Halifax sacraage follows. Copenhagen updates note weather delaying mails and Danish decrees on silver coinage and marriage laws. Paris reports a major palace fire damaging galleries, shops, and courts with many deaths in the aftermath.

St. James’s R. Lucas Pepys Philipine Gracelinary St. James's John Gunoing John Hunter Fan Henry Wood D. D Halifax York George E Copenhagen England Denmark Norway Paris Court of Aids

Woman in Highland regiment enlisted as Peter Mitchel

In Edinburgh a stout woman wearing men's clothes enlisted in the Highland regiment under the name Peter Mitchel and appeared before a magistrate. A man later claimed her as his wife. She expressed willingness to serve the King and was deemed fit, but she was discharged.

Edinburgh Highland Regiment Peter Mitchel

Country News From Reading and Cambridge Snow Hardships

In Reading and Cambridge reports note widespread snow losses with many deaths and charitable acts by gentry. An overturned Waggon near Hockington road to Sleaford kills a Grantham man and a young woman. War orders direct six horses per dragoon troop and recruiting for Burgoyne’s regiment for America.

Country News Reading Cambridge Boston Grantham Hockington Turnpike Sleaford Lincolnshire Richard Coventry Draln Burgoyne America

London News Roundup From St James's and Beyond

Weather kept Majesty at home with divine service in her apartments. Nobles traveled in coaches to St James's. New peers and baronets named for England and Ireland. Boston reports three coal ships safely arriving as severe weather set in. Floods of notices cover ships, prisons, fires, wrecks, and a flood of court actions, with marriages and deaths listed among broader news.

Lon Dorn St. James’s England Jeffrey Amherst Brownlow Cult George Pitt Edward Southwell Foley Ryder Ireland Sephey Nien Wiliam Mayne Charles Bingham Archibald Acheson Richard Phillips John Phillips Thomas Maude Howard M. St. Leger Boston

Estates and Premises Sale and Letting Notice in Blandford Forum

A mixed notice announces demands on the estate of Patrick French of Galway and Bengal, invites claimants to Meir Palmer Searle London by February 20, and advertises a large furnished house for let at Oxford Street, plus an Aston sale of freehold mansion and several lots in Blandford Forum Dorset including the New Inn, cottages, and garden plots with annual rents, viewable by agents Percy Uphobster and Audioncer.

L. Pessons Patrick French Galway Kingdom of Ireland Bengal East Indies Anthony French Aridote Meir, Palmer and Searle Philpot Lake London Howard Audsley Wells Oxford Percy Blandford Forum Dorset John Dennett Benjamin Watts Lot Ifaas Hottock John Simmonds Robert Churchill Blansford Fae

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