Captured Jamaica Man and Slaves by Privateers Near Capes
From Providence a Jamaica-bound vessel laden with sugar indigo and more was chased into the Capes by Clinton and consort. The crew surrendered after a pilot-boat attacked, with reports of further prizes taken by the privateers including a Bermudian sloop and a Sloop from Providence to Philadelphia. The river seen as unsafe, a public fund to outfit armed vessels to defend the coast faces caution, and militia guards are urged as damages to trade mount.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Providence
Capes
Clinton
White
Philadelphia
Jamaica
Bley
Richa
Burk
London
Smith
Hinsley
Virginia
Bristol
Hoartkill Road
Berneau
Cape Francois
Vownsend’s
Cape May
Jersey Shore
Ocricot
North Carolina
Sandy Hook
South-Carolina
Thomas Blake
Martha
Georgia
la Fortune
Ramong
Havannah
St. Michael
Delaware
Jersey
Bay
Cohanty
Edwards
St. Kitt’s
Thompson
Scotland
Roberts
Success
Thomas Jacobs
Ct. Michael
Boston
Edenton
Mary
Jennet
John Gooding
Appoquinimy
Lewis
Cape
Lewis Road
New York
Lot
Suterbridge
Turks Island
Chace
Outerbridge
Preacher in Edinburgh and town crime note
In Scotland at Ledinburgh Mr Whitefield has preached at the Orphan Hospital Park daily and the collection benefits the hospital. John Burton, once named, is sentenced by magistrates to stand at the Cross on the 12th with a label of his crime for letting his cart run over and kill a child on August 5. He is jailed for two months and barred from riding carts until he provides caution. A violent storm caused damage last Sunday with houses uncovered and corn stacks overturned while a Dutch man of war drifted a mile in the road without harm.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ledinburgh
Whitefield
Orphan Hospital
John Burton
Col. Sterling
Cartel-Ship Arrives at Kinsale and Prisoner News
Ireland dispatches report a Cartel-Ship arriving at Kinsale to carry off about seventy Spanish prisoners, with two hundred fifty French prisoners still held. A Hulk is fitting for a return voyage to England under Admiralty orders, and Bridgewater and Solebay men of war accompany the convoy. The piece notes naval store sales, local marriages and deaths, Curragh races, and harvest prospects across the kingdom.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dublin
Kinsale
England
Admiralty
Bridgewater
Solebay
Lords Justices
Marlay
Baron Mountney
Shanaghan
Long
Perry
Thomas Lehunte
Wexford
Crumlin
Cath. Bligh
Stephen’s Green
Caple-street
Oliver Wilson
Madden
Samuel Madden
Dopping
Marmaduke Wyvill
Primate
Mr. Millar
Great
Eafe
Bumper
Dominick Brown, Esq
Edward Obrien
Plastow
Sir Edward
Corntown
Abdiel Edwards
Swift’s Alley
Archbold
Alaid
Sailor Falls From Ship Rigging In Wapping Dock
Bristol dispatch reports a rigger fell from the mizzen shrouds of the Eagle Galley at Wapping Dock. He fractured his skull and died instantly leaving a wife and five children. The account adds details about the execution of Richard Biggs the prior week.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bristol
Eagle
Wapping-Dock
Richard Biggs
Extraordinary Execution on the Gallows Ground
A condemned man on the ladder suddenly jumped down, ground his neck under a rope, and was dragged away tied to a horse when lifting the rope proved impractical. Spectators numbering perhaps twenty thousand watched as the man, about thirty two, lay on the ground and remained sullen before irons bound his body to the gibbet.
Shipping News Item From Sept 25 Listing Arrivals and Departures
The Chesterfield and Collins for Botton along with the Mary Sadler for Jamaica arrived. John and Elizabeth Paule from Hamburg for Exeter remain in the Downs with Grampus Sloop of War. Recovery Slade from Petersburg arrived at Liverpool. Seaflowery Mucked from Riga at Lancaster. Concord Snow Westlade from Boston at St Christopher's. Hope Boga from Philadelphia at Cork. Boyd Purnell from Tortolla and Francis Moran from St Kitts off Dover. Neptune Palmer from London at Antigua. Fair Lady Forster from Boston at St Kitts. Cannon Frigate Dever from Madeira at Antigua. Budge Town Pearce from London at Antigua. Delight Baily from Archangel and Society Austin from Peterthnarch in Solebay.
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Deal
Chesterfield
Collins
Botton
Mary
Sadler
Jamaica
John
Elizabeth
Paule
Boga
Philadelphia
Cork
Boyd
Purnell
Tortolla
Francis
Moran
St. Kit’s
Dover
Neptune
Palmer
London
Antigua
Forster
Boston
Dever
Madeira
Ifto
Budge Town
Pearce
Delight
Baily
Archangel
Society
Austin
Phterthnarch
Solebay
Disturbance over Tobacco fields and reform measures in Europe
Rome reports a farm contractor tried to stop local tobacco cultivation, prompting a peasant force to thwart him and a papal request for regular troops. Amberg clocks are pendulum driven and self-winding, Lyons notes West Indies colonists may face English domination if war drags on. France reels from war costs as militia reforms, East India Company scrutiny, and Dutch political shifts surface. Parliament eyeing mid November session amid palace preparations for the king’s return from Hanover.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Don
Rome
Convent of
Subiaco
Amberg
Lyons
West-Indies
France
East-India Company
Holland
Amsterdam
Leyden
Rotterdam
Utrecht
Friesland
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Ireland
St. James’s Palace
Hanover
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