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Sudden death of John Blackwell shocks city
July 23 Norwich reports John Blackwell aged alderman suffered a sudden pain in the shoulders after supper and expired about two hours later, leaving family in grief. The same date Eccles notes officers and smugglers at Portland's Gap seized ten horses and tea from a cutter while smugglers fled.
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Duke of Cumberland
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