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Newspaper
General Evening Post
Location
London, Middlesex, United Kingdom
Date
Nov 16, 1776
Page
3
Plymouth deck reports Captain Parker of a Sunderland collier drowned after the boat over setting last night near the Gun Wharf. The accident occurred within 40 yards of shore, leaving the locality in shock.
Stormy weather and light winds hindered arrivals as vessels including Catharine Rose Amity Hall Tarbut and William and Charlotte Lindsey sail for Jamaica while Hankey Knowland head for Grenada and Priscilla Payne for Gibraltar. Several ships pass Calais and Jamaica bound craft arrive at the Downs Portsmouth and Poole with crews listing origin ports including Jamaica Barbados Newfoundland and Waterford.
Reports detail promotions in British service, a warning from New York on October 8 rebels near Harlem River, and losses of the 71st regiment. Letters describe Loyalist escapes from the Brune frigate, forced enlistment in Long Island, and returns to allegiance. Also notes on Portland convoy, distress of Pallas, new army dress orders, and Guildhall prize drawings.
At Kingston fair the wife of a grafter living at Ather had her pocket cut off in the toy fair containing 2 pol. On Sunday night two highwaymen stopped carriages at Peelham-gap and robbed travellers, wounding a young man from the General Post-office when he delayed delivering. Local residents pursued the robbers, who rode off. A resident sustained a severe head wound. Also noted are noble births, marriages, and deaths including the Marchioness of Lothian’s son at Newhottle Abbey, the marriage of James Ruthven to Lady Mary Leslie, and deaths of Rev George Wigan and Mrs Chapman among others.
Proprietors of a periodical announce premiums and medals worth three to twenty guineas to attract pupils. Only scholars resident at or attending a specified college or school will be admitted. Details on terms and distribution are published monthly by Fielding and Walker Booksellers in Patkin der.
The House met at two o'clock on Saturday November 16. Sir Charles Whitworth reported the Committee of Supply's resolutions, including 20,734 men with 3,212 invalids to be employed for guards in Great Britain for 1777, with 6480 16s. 0d. for maintenance and 11,473 18s. 6d. for Gat(e) and Staff Officers in Great Britain for service of the year 1597.
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