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Newspaper
General Evening Post
Location
London, Middlesex, United Kingdom
Date
Oct 19, 1776
Page
3
A wide array of notices and reports from London and abroad. Royal and aristocratic affairs are noted with recoveries and deaths, plus treacherous highwayman incidents, court sessions, ship news, duels, and local births marriages and executions on record.
Percival Hunt Esquire senior Alderman of Dublin died yesterday at Milltown. Also on the same day Jehan Smith Esquire secretary to the Lord Chancellor died.
An Ottawa area notice states Maurice Trent of Pitcullo Esq wed Miss Nancy Colquhoun daughter of Sir George Colquhoun Bart. The report also notes the death of James Goldie of Craigmule in Dumfries where he served as Commissary and Sheriff substitute for many years.
A Lisbon mail aboard the Hanover packet says New York fell to General Howe on the Rath of September and that Dr. Washington was captured. The voyage to Falmouth took seventeen days, carrying letters with the startling reports.
A fragmentary notice describes the exchange for a rectory near Bath within fifteen miles in the Petty-France neighborhood. It mentions a yearly value and a transfer to Mr. Snow and Mr. Bochomley’s at a location near Portugal-row, with vague references to fields and property details.
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