This is just the beginning! Our collection holds over 300 years of history, including rare newspapers, obituaries, marriage records, birth records, and so much more—most of which you won’t find anywhere else!
Strange Belfry Breeches and a UK-Style Jester in a Colonial Letter
Letters recount a comical theft as a man finds a Guinea and a half and a silver watch in mislaid breeches sent for mending by a wife who believed they were a gentleman’s gift. The tale is set alongside maritime exploits in Jamaica and a mutinous privateer taken by English captains, with reports from Boston and Halifax, including a drowning accident and a warning of a French fortification on the Guinea coast.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Westminster Fire Office
St. John’s Church Yard
Gray
Mill Bank
Westminster
Tully’s Head
Pall-Mall
Apam Fitz Apam
England
Europe
Asia
New York
Brown
Dixon
Lawrence
Bay of Honduras
Sergeant
Rhode-Island
Key
Bochell
Church
Rhode Island
Conaway
Philadelphia
Menzie
Leonard
Lord
Phoenix
Antonio Calexo
Ward
Bolton
Boston
Phips
Freeborn
Duncan
Sweet
Fones
Polly
Waynman
Davis
Cape
Furlong
Centenur
Bree
Jamaica
Gloria
Anamuaboe
Guinea
Halifax
Ohn Waide
William Nickels
Bohn
George Elliot
London
Richard Hutchinson
Montferrat
Thomas Moore
Old York
Peter de St.-Croix
Newfoundland
John Blomer
James Fallon
Fallon
N. B. Ds
Henry Meriton
St. Thomas’s Hospital
Loxpon
Smelley