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Weathered notices and tragedies from London and beyond
A March 13 death aged 70 in Boston and another in Leicestershire mark a sequence of obituaries. A fatal Surrey accident injures a waggoner near Esher Place, while Finch Lane shoemaker’s apprentice dies by hanging. Coroner records Lunacy verdict. Commerce, public notices, and court actions fill the page with racing, licensing, and tax details, plus parish appointments and shipping losses from Carolina to Surinam.
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Boston
New England
Samuel Dummer
William Dummer
Leicestershire
Bigland
Edward Bigland
Ely
Charles Pifield
Esher Place
Surrey
Henry Pelham
Kingston
Finchlane
Peter Hemet
Prince of Wales
Delamare
Deceas
Pedding
St. Mary le Strand
St. Paul’s
Covend-Garden
Wilson
His Majesty
City and Liberty
Westminster
Elizabeth Spragmore
Mary Sheppard
St. Marcin
James Capys
St. George Hanover Square
Col. de Veil
Elizabeth Langton
St. Martin In the Fields
Mary Shimells
John Jobson
Mary Child
Frances
James Cock
St. John’s College, Cambridge
London
Foulmire Fields
Justice Man
Chelsea
Chelsea College
Guildford
Conner
Carolina
Stoddard
Newport
Triangle
Surinam