Extract of a Philadelphia letter to Governor Colden
Friday March 3 fragments discuss reactions to provincial congresses and loyalty expressions. It notes campaigns to oppose or support convening assemblies, bemoans popular unrest, and praises New York Assembly prudence. It quotes a Philadelphia meeting approving harmony with the King and law, signed James Pemperton.
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Americas
Philadelphia
Colden
Dunlap
Congress
New-York
Annapolis
Quaker Testimony on Peace and Loyalty 1775
The Quaker representatives in Pennsylvania and New Jersey in Philadelphia declare sorrow over the British legislative dispute and colonists’ confrontations. They disapprove of writings urging disaffection, call for peaceable conformity to law, and condemn insurrections and illegal assemblies while urging respectful, lawful redress.
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Pennylvania
New Jd
Philadelphia
Great Britain
Promising Note Fraud at Mansfield Charity Meeting
A poor man sought help at the White Hart inn Mansfield after a horse loss. Mr Machin of Eakring and other farmers signed a relief petition while a Chesterfield farmer’s son manipulated the page. The son forged a promissory note, later confessed but kept the torn portion with Machin’s name, dated Mansfield January 12, which Machin could prove he did not attend.
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Country-News
Leeds
White Hart Inn
Mansfield
Machin
Eakring
Chesterfield
Arrivals from Rotterdam to English Ports Ledger
A fragmented shipping notice lists vessels and captains arriving at ports near Portsmouth and Yarmouth from Rotterdam and London. Names include Amiable Ruth Migworth Rouen Charles Atkinson King George Niccolson Duke of York Wilcox plus Turnbull Bailey Heffey Kent Wilson and others arriving at Tortola Stangate Creek Porto and related harbors.
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HIP
Dear
Marcns
S. W
Aurora
Watson
Rotterdam
Portsmouth
Guarrssnrp
Marcn
Ruth
Migworth
Rouen
Charles
Atkinson
King George
Niccolson
Duke of York
Wilcox
Roterdam
Tortola
Turnbull
Bailey
Londons Hall
Sarsh
Heffey
Kent
Wilson
Friendship
Planch
Knight
Savile
Endeivowy
Cornforth
Marquis of Granby
Calder
Front Road
Yarmouth Road
Elizabeth
Schumaker
Bemen
Stangate Creek
Lark
Smith
Naples
Philadelphia
Britannia
Dickson
London
Porto
Houghton
Gadshali
Political and social notices from London and abroad
A wide range of items: a forecast of a major motion in the Upper Assembly. letters from Virginia about colonial unrest and Dutch diplomacy. reports of clashes in the Bay of Honduras. a notable inheritance and a private letter from the Hague. Also duels, elopements, a grave mausoleum incident, coiners discovered in Hoxton, a murdered infant in Long Field, a vicarage dispensation, several marriages and the death of the Countess of Leicester.
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Virginia
Perth
Hague
States General
Morocco
Mediterranean
Africa
Levant
Notable Obituaries and Births in London Notices
Wednesday night at Twickenham John Sydenham aged 2 grandson of Dr Sydenham Capt Edward Law formerly commander in Straits trade. Yesterday in St Albans Street Mrs Cleland of Roger Cleland Brentwood Essex. In 75th year James Moss difiller Blewit's buildings Southwark. Wanstead Walter Fletcher of Hutton Hall Cumberland aged 84. Dallington near Northampton lady of Joseph Jekyll. Mrs Browning brandy merchant Smithfield Bars. Mr Mason a Taylor Arundel Street Strand.
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Twickenham
John Sydenham
Sydenham
Virginia-freet
Ratcliff-highway
Edward Law
St.Alban’s-street
Cleland
Roger Cleland
Brentwood
Essex
James Moss
Blewit
Southwark
Wanstead
Walter Fletcher
Hutton-hall
Cumberland
Dallington
Norhampton
Joseph Jekyll
Mn Browning
Smithfield-bars
Mason, Taylor
Arundel Street
Strand
Vacancy in Worcester County Election Opened by Dowderwell Death
The gentlemen clergy and freeholders are urged to avoid haste in choosing a new representative for Worcester as a vacancy arises after the death of Mr Dowderwell. A public meeting may be called to gauge opinions, with a former county representative hinted as a possible candidate due to his honorable retirement and health concerns. February 27, 1775.
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Worcester
G_tlemen
Dowderwell
Maéteright
Guildhall
Royal Exchange
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James Pemperton
France
Sweden
Bay of Honduras
Mr. Dowderwell
Bristol
Jamaica
St. Helen’s
Marlborough Street
Hounflow Heath
Hounflow
Fotttenham
Lewisham
Sanders and Yates
Welch Charity School
Mary Vanglo
Vanglo
Dulwich
Bow
Weston
Heathmoor
Wiltshire
Mac
Wilmot
Clerkenwell-bridewell
Tottenham Court-Road
Foundling Hospital
Gervis Jones
Queen’s College, Cambridge
Earl of Northerk
Offey
Hertford
Lincoln
Holwell
Bedford
John Grey
Sir Henry Grey, Bart
Howick
Northumberland
Miss Wickett
Dorset-court
Parliament-street
Alex. Leith
Tregony
Cornwall
Miss Cope
Grafton-street
John Cope
Bath
Holkham
Norfolk
Countess of Leicester
James Cox
Witness
WM. Nicholson
Cornhill
Vincent Mitchert
Baldeck
County of Hertford
Wilkinson
Grace Jarrett
Ac Battle
Sussex
Solomon Duke
Charles Laurence
Battle
Jarrett
Lincolnshire
Castle- Carlton
Great Carlton
Louth
John Green
Francis Billam
Yorkshire
John Hudfin
Grenada
Garraway
Alley
Cormhill
St. David
Maigrin
Irving
Lamb'se
Middle- Temple
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