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Newspaper

General Evening Post

Location

London, Middlesex, United Kingdom

Date

May 21, 1748

Page

2

Shipping crew and vessels listed at Barbadoes and Liverpool

The Mary Allanty from Lancester and Barbadoes sails. the Kengal Merchantt Murner from Barbadoes. the Hans Hindman from St. Kitts to Leith. the Tryton Cooper from Barbadoes to Liverpool. the Charming Peggy Wallock from Virginia bound for Liverpool. multiple origins and destinations noted.

Mary Allanty Lancester Barbadoes Kengal Murner Ditto Hans

Admiralty Proclamation and naval manning orders amid ongoing wars

A May 20 dispatch from the Admiralty outlines continued seafaring readiness despite a temporary cessation of arms with France. Officers press seamen only for their own ships until crewed, reserve help for vessels returning from the Mediterranean, and note smuggling activity rising on Sussex coast. Reports cover arrests, market bans, parliamentary seats, ship captures, and local incidents across London and surrounding counties.

Bon Down Ar. Corbett Admiralty Admiralty Office France Thames London Spain Peter Warren Hawke His Buffel Jersey Diamond Mediterranean

Trustees Meet Over Bagshot Heath Turnpike Repairs

At a February 22 1747 trustees meeting for repairing the Bagshot Heath turnpike in Surrey it was ordered the next meeting be April 18 but insufficient trustees appeared. A May 9 meeting was then set, again with too few trustees, and a final May 30 meeting was ordered for ten o clock in the forenson at the Red Lion in Egham.

Bagshot Heath Surry Red Lion Egham

Advertisement warns two Bull-Finches’ owners in Duke Street

In June or July 1747 two Bull-Finches were sent to two ladies in Duke Street who promised to teach them to sing. Despite many inquiries no answer has been given. If no satisfactory reply is received before June 17, their names and disagreeable particulars will be published in this paper.

Duke-Street

Sale of cargo and vessel at Bristol exchange

On June 2 at the Exchange Coffee-House Bristol a cargo from St Domingo will be auctioned aboard the ship La Notre Dame des Anges captured by the privateer Alexander commanded by Capt Mathew Combe. Cargo includes 485 casks sugar 34 casks Indigo six tons cotton 41 casks coffee six tons lignum vitae mahogany planks tortoise shell samples viewable in London and Bristol. Also to be sold the 300 ton square sterned ship with crew and materials. Inventories to be issued by Mr Underhill and William Sunt.

Grenadier Kent Newgate St. James’s Holland Bois Je Duc Hawley Duke Hanover Madrid Turin Aix la Chapelle Cyril’ Wych Hamburgh Dantzick Hans Towns Order of St. Alexander Viscount Petersham St. Edmund’s Bury Suffolk William Corbett Bart Ludlow Shropshire Archbishop of Canterbury Ee Barnard City of London Kensington Square Edward Robinson Salter London Middlesex West Ham Essex Harris Powell Foxley John Dalrymple Stair Scotland Bristol Wilts Gloucester Admiralty Mark Milbank Inverness New England Antstell Boston Antigua William, Street Rotterdam Newcastle St. George Limerick Newfoundland Baltimore Sussex France Middle Epyward Gailet Somertethhire Exchange Coffee Briftol la Notre Dame Des Anges St. Domingo Mathew Combe Undehhill William Sunt

Publick Survey on Estates in Devon and Cornwall Auction

Notices announce multiple public surveys for sale of the Yard and Sharpham estates in Devon, with parcels of Barton and manors near Totness, Dartmouth, Newton Abbot, and Ashburton. Details and property particulars are available at listed inns and coffee houses in Plymouth Exeter Totness Newton Bushell and London.

Fune Jon Pewsey Plymouth Longstone Sheepstor Devon Sheepftor Walkhampton Mgavy Buckland Monachorum Sheepster John Elford Dock Tavistock Earle Moll Exeter Japson Ingsdon Ashburton Mark Batt Modtonham Saltash Cornwall Addis Archer Samuel Brent John Edgecumbe Thomas Jones St. Anstell Wiliam Lake Castle Yard Holborn London Maddock Totners Gilbert Yard Sharpham County of Messuage Barton Lower Sharpham Alprington Said Dart Totness Dartmouth Higher Hollybear Ashprinton Brwden Harris Drew Marshal’s Slade Warcombe Perchwood Painton Richard Metherell Bridge Town Pomeroy Tenness John Gregory Newton-Burhell Woolborough Teing Angel Inn Bell Inn Newton Barton Houses Sharpham and Bradley Moll’s Earle’s William Luke Castle-Yard

Reward offered for two missing men in Reading incident

William Mills aged about seventeen and William Mitchell aged about nineteen absented themselves from master Michael Whittingham a wooden-­heel maker in Castle Street Reading Berks on Sunday the 15th instant. A Guinea reward is offered for information leading to their return and they are warned against harbouring or employing them. Mills wore a brown coat and waistcoat with round metal buttons and leather breeches Mitchell wore a light coloured coat a light waistcoat and leather breeches.

Westminster Bridge Surry Shore Carter Watermens Hall Vauxhall Highgate Aldersgate-street Horner Excise- Office Bagshot-Heath Houseman Colabrook Elizabeth Nicholls Gordon James Fraser Cooke Southampton Street Newgate Sevenoaks Kent King’s Bench Westminster Black Friars Stairs Gravesend America Holland Major Highworth Bragg Foot Nicholas Godschall Mortlake Surry Northampton Ray Thomas Ray Knightbridge Broadway Westmatter Richard Baker Lloyd’s Lombardftreet Bedford-Row William Mills Wiliam Mitchell Michael Whittingham Castle Street Reading Berks William Mitchell

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