Boston siege and rebel activity reported from Madrid to London
Extra from London shows Gage's Boston siege, rebel attacks on islands, and martial law amid ships arriving from Ireland. Newsletters describe scuffles, an armed schooner burned, and proclamations pardoning armed rebels while naming Adams and Hancock as traitors. Also reports on Sicily harvests, Genoa Doge, and Oran engagement.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London Gazette
Whitehall
Leutenant
Gage
Earl of Dartmouth
Boston
Isand
Ireland
Samuel Adams
John Hancock
Massachusetts Bay
Naples
Sicily
Madrid
Carthagena
Genoa
M. Brizo Guistiniano
Vienna
Laxenbourg
Mayor Thomas Bayles Dies En Route to London
In Colcheser on July 1, Thomas Bayles, Esq, Mayor of the corporation, died at the Cock and Bell Inn Rumford while traveling to consult a physician in London. He was elected after the death of John Baker, Esq, who also died during his mayoralty earlier this year.
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Joshua Wilson
Leeds
Yorkshire
Wiliam Wood
Gray’s Inn
John Waite the Elder
Melton Mowbray
Leicestershire
Forcénider
New Inn
Nottingham
Ate Tomey
Robert Seagrave
Credi John Beynon
Coventry
Warwickshire
Thomas Dibbs
Mitrecourt
Cheapside
London
Guildhall
Tidac Mallottie
Hammersmith
Middlesex
Charles Blyde
Oxford-street
Mary Honey Kiddiesex
Londo
Wiliam ‘Brome
Ipswich
Patith
St. Janes
Westmiter
Dliddieiix
Butcher
Joseph Bunny
Deceaec
John Twyersts
Feraterty
Coleman-streets
Lawrence Pountney
Country-News
Colcheser
Thomas Bayles
Cock and Bell Inn
Rumford
John Baker
High Court of Chancery
Thomas Cuddonr
Symond's Inn
Chanecerylarie
Plasey-Dinas
Fetc
Migod
David
Montgomery
Edward Kynaston
Hardwické
Saicp
Madler
Maritime Arrivals and Ship Movements of July 17
On July 17 several vessels cleared for foreign ports and others arrived at English ports. Ships sailing included Mermaid for Venice, Sally for Chester, Jenny for Belfast, and Gravesean heading to a Dutch port, with Swift Pilot and Lante in convoy. Arrivals at Dover, Nevis, and Seaford featured Jamaica Packet, Maria, Friendship, and Dorothy from Jamaica or London in various trades.
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Boston
South Carolina
Charles Town
Ashley
Cooper
Carlton
Montreal
Tyconderago
Crown Point
New York
England
Cape Finisterre
Gibraltar
Oran
Gftyguna
Barcelona
Senegal
Tryal
Fort Lewis
Fort George
Padore
O’hara
Paterson
Silesia
Berlin
Jamaica
Kingston
Guarda Costas
America
Mediterranean
West Indies
St. James’s
Woolwich Yard
Whitehall
Admiralty
Kingdom
Lord Sandwich
Deptford
Depford
Catton Bath
Rice
India House
Fors St. George
St. Helena
Resolution
Case
Cooke
Cape
Cook
Queen
Grosvenor
Ward Pound
Drat
Wind
Mermaid
Cotton
Venice
Sally
Williams
Chester
Jenny
Shannon
Belfast
Lante
Gravesean
Bream
New-York
Calais
Ross
Britannia
Burden
Antigua
Dover
Loft
Nevis
Maria
Guillaum
Friendship
Wood
London
Seaford
Dorothy, White
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Fune
Edinburgh
Beflon
Philadelphia
Grand Continental Congress
Great Britain
New-England
Halifax
Cambridge
Duke of Gloucester
Italy
Chatham
Louch
Edward Randall
S.i
Porthmonuth
Rich
Omiah
Essex
Ilford
Braintree
Lord Mansfield
Capczin
Sc. Kitt’s
P E
Justice S
Middlesex Hospital
Sherwood
Daniel Perreau
Harley-street
T F
Newgate
Sie
John Vennables
Vennables
Old Bailey
Black-friars-bridge
Thames
Spitalfields Market
Henry Fortee
Lambeth
Allhallows, Barking
Thomas Lang
Hannah
Haygarth
Eastcheap
Jacob Lambert
Newcastle Upon Tyne
Thomas Layton
Dean-street
Fetter Lane
Lomlon
George Watson
Montrosy
James Keltie
Wright
Navy Office
His Majesty
Plymouth
Portsmouth
Woolwich
Ann Gilbert
Hellingly
Susex
Richard Baxter
Baxter
Mary Gilmore
Martha Porteous
Marta Gilbert
Swiceeas
Tilden
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