Royal Proclamation Recalls Seamen From Foreign Service
From the London Gazette a royal proclamation recalls seamen from serving foreign princes and states and offers rewards for discovery. It bans natural born subjects from entering foreign service without a license and sets rewards of two pounds for able seamen and thirty shillings for ordinary seamen found in foreign service by December end. The notice also lists appointments and various shipping notices across ports.
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London Gazette
George 2
Privy Council
Great Britain
London
St. James’s
St. James's
George Henry Arthur
Earl of
Powis
Montgomery
Order of the Bath
John Clavering
Ely
Windward Winds and Ocean Arrivals at Port
Shipping news records multiple vessels sailing and arriving on a windy day. List includes Indiaman Talbot East Indiaman from India, Jeffre from New York, Eisen from Linester, and more bound for London and other ports. Several ships arrive or pass the harbor including Speedwell, Sally, Ware, and La Franceis with crews noted and ports cited such as Jamaica Quebec Genoa Dublin and Dunkirk.
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Wind
Riek
India
Jeffre
Meior
New-York
Eisen
Holmes
bLinester
His Majesty
Dsan
Creamer
Hubbert
Wyburgh
Susannah
Ewers
Jamaica
Juno Sinth
Quebec
Cadas
Fire and Loot After 1770 St Kitts Town Fire
A St Kitts Chronicteg report from September 14 1770 estimates the fire on Thursday the sun up caused massive destruction. Merchants lose provisions and rum valued at about 350000 sterling. Suspicions arise that the blaze was deliberate with two loud discharges heard near the town. Guards tried to curb looting, but a storm and flood worsened the damage and hampered recovery.
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L Condon
St. Kitt’s
Basseterre
Leeward
Town visitor relays political upheaval rumors in Boston
A gentleman arriving in town reports Mel Hancock and Adams expelled from the American Congress and Franklin named president of the Grand American Congress. He notes Howe's army fortifying a strong camp to trap Washington, while letters from New York hint at Congress softening independence aims due to defeats and discontent. Quakers decried for hanging brethren over paper currency. Pennsylvania delegates withdraw. Halifax letters recount Captain Sutton's death and a savage sloop, Bromedge, sailing toward Louisburg with two drowned.
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Boston
Mel. Hancock
Adams
American Congress
Dr. Franklin
Grand American Congress
Howe
Washington
William
Moore
Congress
America
New-York
Manesty
Pennsylvania
Halifax
Sutton
14Th Regiment of Foot
Bromedge
Louisburg
Seamen Ordered to Portsmouth Guardships Amid Muted News
The Greenwich hospital seamen under fifty fit for his Majesty's service are to prepare for board on guardships at Portsmouth and Spithead after a physician examination. A Royal George capture and various local incidents including a Guildhall gathering, elopement, a fatal cart accident, a Shadwell press-gang clash, and several bankruptcy notices are reported.
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Greenwich Hospital
Portsmouth
Spithead
Admiralty
Royal George
Doyle
Waterford
Hallifax
Goldsbury
New England
Hague
States General
Morocco
Gosport
Sirdward Vernon
East Indies
Guildhall
Sir Charles Asgill
Meffrs
Bridgen
Harley
Crosby
Townsend
Wilkes
Kirkman
Oliver
Vir
Atwood
Prince of Wales
Kew
Kensington
King Street
Backlane
Shadwell
York
London
Mapletoft
Christ College, Cambridge
His Majesty’s Chapel Royal
Whitehall
Polbrook
Sadler
St. John’s Street
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Dublin
Swallow
Trotter
Liben
Margery
Sands
Peribaret
Lord Grosvenor
Tyler
Friendship
Finner
Thomas and
Mary
Mac Carty
Malaga
Siders
Williams
Bristol
Corke
Kite
Bilboa
Lucy
Watson
New York
Chance
Jarvis
Falmouth
Limerick
Rebteca
Scott
Industry
Regan
Aliciat
Atudtrious
Weldon
Newfoundland
Aires
Arthur
Neil
Sligoe
Dover
Betty
Jenny
Thompson
Grenada
Betfey
Smeadon
Dunkirk
Neptune
Morell
St. Domingo
Campbell, Sutherland
N Ifon
HalHax
Downs
Hera
Willis
Belfast
Success
Henderson
E Profgersis
Lallow
Prince George
Googe
Smyrna
Smaragrada
Brine
Fating
Grant
Lark, Smith
Antigua
Trembler
Dartmouth
Lisbon
Molly
Buttell
Exeter
Sukey
Sharp
Stockton
James
Rebecca
Wade
AW Krupt
S. Edward Yates
John Barnes
Aldersxtate-street
Shadwouil
William Delmonte
Mariner
Jackson
Percy-street
Rathbone
Place
William Johnson
Money-Scrivener
Rhodes
Clerkenwell
Ralph Aldus
Gray’s-inn
Middlesex
Moneyscrivener
Mr. Letteney
Holborncourt
Gray's-inn
Daniel Henriod
Swithin’s-lane
Fairbank
Staple-inn
Holborn
Richard Houlditch
Stratford
Essex
Biscuit
Attornies
Meff
Thomas Hookham
Hanover Square
Ralph Gee
Birmingham
Warwickshire
Mercer and Drapee
Swan Inn
High-street
Henry Nell
Sun Tavern Fields
James Urquhart
Chequer-yard
Bath Lane
Lon
Don
Merchant
Chittopher Actrood
Travers
John Jordan
Billey
Gloucesterthire
Clothier
Cio Te Ciara Dyce Dauthaleer
Flenre Suddéfley
Strand
Middia
Petimers Pee Shidhall
James Nelson
Weston-street
Southwark
Surry
Guildshall
Thomas Calton
Roherhithe
Richard Gray
Piccadilly
St. James
Senton
Richard Shuttleworth
Durham
Red Lion
John Reyfields
Sandwich
Kent
James Grey
Penryn
Cornwall
Peer Finn
King-ftrter
Taylor
John ‘Tetley
Benjamin Hobson
Taylors
Falefe Man
William Frost
St. Mary Jo Straphy
Taylor and Cap-Maker
E2kiel Puonect
Thomas Punnett
Town Satteny Kent
John Orr
Manchester
Lancashire
William Staver
Fort-street
Tower of London
Thomas Giordani
St. Pancerais
Thomas Sylvester the Elder
Edmund Sylvéser
Thomas Sylvester the Y Untes
Leteot
Great Runffel- Street
Blookbury
Kirchin-lane
Royal Exchange
Molesworth
Mel. Bolders, Kendall
Lynn
Marsiland
Ouze
Denver Stuke
King’s Linn
Norfolk
Duke's Head
Scarlet Browne
N.B
Soho
Dg W.lk Fuic
Fortum
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