Corsican unrest as muskets land to aid revolt near Ajaccio
A July report notes 8000 muskets and powder landed near Aleria to support Corsican rebels against French rule. Skirmishes erupt daily near Ajaccio as Porficans volunteers join banditti. later reports from Leghorn claim a clash in the Nile area where French forces retreated, and the male contents defeated another French unit at Campoloro.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Flanders
Basria
Aleria
Cassinca
Niola
Ajaccio
Corte
Leghorn
Corsica
Robult
Pieve
Nile
France
M. Gaffort
Prench
Campoloro
Virginia Assembly Equal Rights Association Protest
An 1780s Virginia association, signed by about eighty-nine former Burgesses and others, urges colonial resistance to British taxation without representation. It condemns the Tea Act, calls for continental congresses, and urges boycotts of East India Company goods while urging unity among colonies and merchants.
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M.E R
Coa
Williamsburgh
Virginia
Hous of Burgesses
North America
Great Britain
British America
Boston
Massachusets ‘Bay
A& Snoft
America
the India Company
Committee of Correspondence
Congress
Britain
Virginia ‘Assembly
Irish Lords Chancellor Ends Great Cause in Ely Favor
Dublin July 5 Yesterday the Lord Chancellor of Ireland finished a long cause in the Rolls Court with Gustavus Rochfort Home and George Rochfort as plaintiffs and Henry, Earl of Ely, among others, as defendants. The bill was dismissed on the merits in favor of the defendant after a twenty two day hearing. Northampton July 11 News notes a young woman entering a post-chaffer on the Three
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Dublin
Ireland
Eig Court
Gustavus Rochfort
Georgé Rochfort
Henry
Earl of Ely
Qld Bailey
Matcham
Lord Egremont
St. George’s Shospital
Marybone
Matthew Lewis
Dover Street
Eltham
Kent
Josias Kelly
Morgan
Eslex-treet
Greenland-dock
Rotherhithe
Charles Sandford
Powers
Charles Switham
Healing
Lincolnshire
Henry Wallis
Garboldisham
Norfolk
Mr. Robinson
Alexander Henry Gough
Thorpe
Essex
Woman Suspected of Theft Falls From Window
A drunken scene at an inn in Leicester ends when a young servant, sought by her mistress, jumps from a window to escape. She breaks a leg and is taken to Leicester infirmary in a fair way of recovery. The robbed party is Mrs. Axtell Finchlane of Cornhill.
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Leicesters
Leicester Infirmary
Axtell
Finchlane
Cornhill
Piley
G. Riley
Bookfeller
Sterne’s.Head
Sione-Street
Bookfellers
Town
Couritry
Turlington
Artha Wray
Mary Sopp
Hilton. Wray
John. Wray
Martha Wray
Martha Way
Hilton Wray
King’s Armes
Birchin-lane
London
Robert Turlington
Johu Wray
Lave
Parsons
I. Wn
Ailliam Way
Mary Wray
Wii
Arrivals at Liverpool and Port of London for July
List of ships arriving at Liverpool and the River Thames with captains and ports of origin. Mentions Sir William, Fox, Norman, Trident, Henry Dawkins, Unity, York, and multiple vessels from Jamaica, Virginia, Antigua, Cadiz, and Portugal with dates in July.
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W. S
Dear
Sir William
Johnson
Dean
New- York
Kingston
Burcham
Operton
Thomas
Robson
Botton
Dawes
Brown
Cesar
Curry
Jamaica
Fox
Norman
Piscataqua
Christian
Smith
Antigua
Trident
Mitchell
Liverpool
Liberty
Pendleton
Virginia
Molly
Colley
Lisbon
Polly
Thompson
New-York
Maria-Theresa
Nott
Rotterdam
Dover
Oliver
London
Davis
Nevis
Poole
Hopewell
Churchill
North Carolina
St. Vincent's
Charles
Hurst
Africa
Fragmented Europe News and Local Crimes Report
A mixed 18th century notice cites Count Golovkin and mediators with the King of Prussia, sailed ships to Algiers, and plague reports from Mequinez. London alerts include dockyard reviews, a Yorkshire ship policy case, folk crimes in Westminster and Edmonton, robberies in Marybone and Flee Street, plus lifelike obituaries and stock prices.
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Dantzic
Fune
Golovkin
Prussia
Petersburgh
Camely
Pruffia
Majelsty
Thames
Portsmouth
Eagle
Algiers
Prince Maffareno
Sheerness
Chatham
Plymouth
Mequinez
Barbary
Lisbon
Hampden
Falmouth
Cape of Good Hope
Cook
New Zealand
Thurday Jatt
Ié&E
Riga
Cherboirg Road
Earl
Harcourt
Ireland
Bingley-house
Cavendish-quare
Yorke
Edmund Hodgson
Johnson’s Court
Meetmstreet
Toft
Guildhall
de Grey
Gary
Faust
Sumner
Jason
Pondicherry
t’Orient
Chevalier
Law
Chandernagore
Half-Indies
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Wes
Northampton
Loaade
St.Paul
Angola
Cape
Shadwell
Westminster
Stevenson
Flee Street
Wood-street
S of ST
India
Bank Red
Wanam Bayley
CoeRtporcttreet
Leo
John Price
India’ House
Leadenhall-Street
Fu Newbery
St.Pail's Church
Yaed
J.-Grotvenor
Richard. Amner
Buckland
Paternofterrawy
Ds- Am
Taylor
Thomas Scott
Jacob Hemet
Amelia
Hemet
W. Bayley
Cockspur-street
Haymarket
M. Purdie
Bath
Joan Hooper
John
Joseph
Benjamin Hooper
Hooper
Cluer Dicey
Ike
Radcliffe
DICEY
Birmingham
Great-Britain
Europe
Bateman
Anderson
Frannives
Betton
Fryar
Ballany
Oxell
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