Curious saw-mill invention promises to aid laborers
News from Merpeth reports Mr Restrick has invented a saw-mill that lets any laborer saw as much in an hour as four men brought to the branch can do in the same time, enabling logs to be imported and processed locally by countrymen. Also notes the death of Mrs Sarah Cookson from a spark igniting her apron and lists ship arrivals at various ports including Corke Kitty M'Kirman Glasgow Britannia and others.
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Jan Te
Merpeth
Restrick
Sarah Cookson
John Cookson
London News Fragments on Passage, Law, and Markets
Miscellany from London recounts Olive Branch passengers arriving via Plymouth after failed voyage from Boston, political appointments in Massachusetts bay, a captured warship paraphernalia near Boston, and ice blocked river navigation causing delays. Court notices cover misdeeds by magistrates and a corrobated transportation case with bribery, while market practices note butchers needing hand jaws.
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London
Olive Branch
Plymouth
Boston
John Adams
Massachusetts Bay
Great Adams
Franklin
Pot
Court of
King’s Bench
Bearcroft
Middlesex
Lord Mansfield
Westminster Charity
John Fielding
Bowtreet
Joseph ' Payne
John Farret
William Simmonds
Benjamin Payne
Farrell
Simmonds
Chapman
Sir John Fielding
John
John Farell
Frauds and felonies surface in Shadwell and Covent Garden
In a London magistrate’s court, Lt Joseph Payne pressed for action against extortionists. Farell’s bailers were questioned for character before being allowed to offer bail. Elizabeth West, famed theatre figure, faced charges of pocket-picking Mr Guyan near Covent Garden theatre. she was committed to prosecute. A fire at Mr Matyear’s Fulham garden destroyed the house and valuables. A poor woman was found dead in Goswell Street from exposure. Obituaries note Geo Davison aged 85, and several local figures including Mr Carnan, Mr Davenport, Mrs Mays, Mr Dennison, and Mr Gabriel King passed away or were noted in recent notices. Marriages include Sam Townley and Miss Johnson at St. Dunstan’s in the East.
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Rove
Hhen
Joseph Payne
Menner
Payne
Shadwell
Farell
Sir John
Elizabeth West
Guyan
Covent-garden Theatre
Matyear
Fulham
Goswell-street
St. Dunstan’s
Sam
Townley
Tower-street
Johnson
Fleet-street
Rochester
Geo. Davison
Corporation
Joseph Vere
Vere
Fleetstreet
Carnan
Philpottage
Mays
Maye
Clifford’s Inn
Pembridge
Shropshire
Davenport
Reginald Dennison
Apothecaries Company
Gabriel King
Princes-street
Bishopsgate Street
Public Auction Notice at Leominster for Thorn Farm Sale
A sale by auction scheduled for March 8 at Joseph Coates bidder's premises Leominster of a messuage or tenement and Thorn farm in Birley parish Hereford. The property covers over 229 acres arable land meadow pasture coppice and orchard with buildings in repair, four miles from Leominster ten from Hereford. For details contact Edward Coleman Lgomiller or John Sheriff to inspect the premises.
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Joseph Coates
Leominster
Equoty
Hereford
Birley
John Sheriff
Herefode
Edward Coleman
Colchester
Essex
Fiske
John Fiske
Wiliam Mayhew
Elizabeth Godfrey
James Waythan
Colcketter
Ligheft
New B Forest
Kirkby-Hill
County of York
Keckswath
William Ingram
Hallgate
Hallgate Common
Heilwath
George Bowe
Halle Gate
Hallgate Pasture
Arkendale
Earl of
Winchelfen
Nottingham
William Sleigh
Elys
Stockton
Edward Eliott
Bremington
Richmond
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S-E
Corke
Kitty
M‘kirman
Brisol
Katy
White
Glasgow
Britannia
Rigg
Carcass
Marthall
Molly
Smithys
Earl of’ Derby
R Hugh -Downman
Mm. D
G. Kearfly
Fleet Freer
Fretcher
Oxford
Fietcher and Hodson
Cambridge
Thorne
Spenser
Sermow
Gordon
Mainwaring
Mary
Henley
William and Mary College
Virginia
B. Law
Avemary
Lane
Ludgate
Street
Mr. Perrin
Cremena
Bufy
Sidin
F. Lotginian
J. Eddéwes
W. Bayley
Cockper-street
Haymarket
J. Price
Noets Leadenhall-street
F. Newbery
St. Paul’s Church-yard
J. Grosvenor
Perfmer
Turnstle
Holborn
A. Rouiweill
Maidstone
Kens
Thuray
Egerton
Kent
Joseph Cuppin
Medway
Parto- Beli
Bayley
E. Prencis
Pudding-lane
Anthony- Bloomer
Mel, Company
Swhneck
Monger
Mason
Rabfeley
Cowell
Wimote
Brookfield
Chatham
Roshiefter
Mutton
Maidhone
Novi
Charles Mews
Robert Hills
Taka
N. B
William Roffe
Earl of Chester
Thomas Hunter
Weaverham
Cheshire
F. Cadell
Strand
Viscount Bolingbroke
Englash
George Stanhope
D.D
Canterbury
J. Beécroft
C. Rathua
W. Strahan
J. Anc F. Rivington
W. Johnston
Jr. Fuller
S. Crowder
G. Kkeith
T. Longman
W. Clarke
T.carlon
JE. Cadell
Wilkie
W. Ginger
G. Burnet
B. Collins
W. Otridge
James
Annals of
Newgate
Marc
John Sheppard
Margaret
Caroline
Rudd
J. ‘Wenman
William Bayley
Cockpitt-street
Loneden
John Price
India House
Leadenhall-freet
St. Paul's Churchyard
Perfirmier
Turhitile
A. Regkwell
The
Box
Howard
Audsley
Wellstreet
Oxford-street
C -Pleydell
Twelfth Regiment of Foot
Jo-Nearle
Catharing
Martha Count Saxe
M. le Blond
Ji Mudérad
Fridap
M.D. Bate
Anny Necker
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