News from Holland and Egypt Dominate May Dispatches
Postscript reports arrived from Holland and Flanders with a sequence of war and political notes. Reports claim Egyptian forces under Cheick Daher defeated the Egyptian army, a Moldavia dispute resolved in favor of the Porte, and fires devastating towns in White Russia. London and Paris items mention court movements, prisons, and royal orders. New York letters describe Lexington and Concord skirmishes, militia mobilization, and military dispatches.
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Constantinopie
Egypt
Cheick Daher
Porte
Court of
Vienna
Moldavia
Transylvania
Polang
Wilda
Riefzenkorbief
White Rusia
Krzemnencz
Paris
d’Aiguillon
Lak
Veret
Duke de Chorfeu
Chanteloup
Rheims
Messrs. S
Bastille
Connecticut Assembly Advances Six Regiments for War
Hartford reports the Connecticut General Assembly has passed an act to raise six regiments under Major General Wooster with brigadiers Putnam and Spencer and colonels Hinman Parsons and Waterbury. Letters from April 23 describe rapid mobilization, men arming, and strong resolve to support Boston or New York as events unfold, with warnings against treachery and calls for unity among colonies. The dispatch notes momentum from New York to Concord and reports rumors of ships, garrisons, and provincial governance shifts amid the crisis.
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Lon
New York
Harriot
Oake
Falmouth
New-York
New-York Gazette
Concord
Lexington
New England
Essex Gazette
Salem
London
Connecticut
Botton
Conneticut
Rhode Island
Marshield
Bofton
Bokun
Boston
Cambridge
Roxbury
Providence
Brown
Newport
Hartford
General Assembly of
Col
Wooster
Co. Putnam
Jared Spencer
Hinman
Parsons
Waterbury
Weathersfield
America
Bolton
P.S
Murray
Wacchous
Fach Arte Warner
General Gage
Harriot Packet
New- York
Grand American Congress
Gage
Low Island
Icis
Cork
John Rogers, Esq
Penrose
St. Barnabas
Merchant-Taylors Company
St. John’s College, Oxford
George Fletcher
John Davis Preston
George Lethieullier Schoen
Whitechapel
Market Prices And Notable Local Incidents In Kent And Oxfordshire
Prices at Leaden Hall market list beef and mutton ranges with veal pork and lamb quotes. An engagement at Lydd, Kent, left smugglers wounded and one dead, another dying, while a notorious Oxford Street case involves a nurse and a high ranking patient. Fettiplace Nott, Esq., notable official, dies. A bakehouse fire at Great Barford, Oxfordshire, destroys nine tenements and outbuildings.
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Leaden Hall Market
Lydd
Kent
Fone
Fincz
Wrells’s Street
Oxford-road
Litchfeld
Fettiplace Nott
Stafford
Warwick
Litchfield
Birmingham
Great Barford
Oxfordshire
Boston Gazette Letter from a Marine on Boston Siege 1775
A Boston April 24 1775 letter from a Marine under General Gage describes brutal conditions in Boston during the siege. The writer laments repulse by provincials and warns of flames and blood as militia surround the town. He blames Parliament acts and urges repeal or replacement by Chatham to restore tranquility and prevent independence.
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Veritas
Gexraat Evenina
Boston
IAM
Gage
America
Chatham
High Water Times at London Bridge
High water at London Bridge is listed for tomorrow with two tides in the morning and seven in the afternoon. Additional readings after 3 in the afternoon show further high water occurrences.
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London Bridge
Corn and Grain Prices at the Corn-Exchange Lane
Prices for corn and grains listed with ranges in s. and d. for corn, wheat, barley, oats, flour, malt, beans, rye, and taram. includes pale malt and second fort values and notes a market location in lane.
Bank Stock Prices and Bond Listings Noted
The item lists various bank shares and bonds with prices and percent figures. Entries mention Stock Prices such as 14¢24 and 3 percent dividends, India and South India bonds, and several Bank Announcements with percent rates and classifications.
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India
South-Indina
Ditto
Conia
Bank
Pr. Navy
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Ds. Day
Holland
Flanders
Isaac Low
Massachusetts Bay
Continental Congress
Great Britain
Newark
Caleb Camp
Massachusetts-bay
Wiite New-Your Gazette
Datchefs County
Robert L. Livington
Jun. Egbert Benson
Morris Graham
Esquires
Dudchess
Beekman’s
Fawling’s
Frederick Fourgt
Philipse
Charlotte
Poughkeepsie
Dutchess
North- East
Rynbeck
Rhumbout
Precin&t
Gexexat Evanine Post
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