Empress plans Constantinople house with Fredericks Co
Saturday August 3 dispatches detail a proposed trade house at Constantinople by Fredericks and Co with two English partners. The Empress funds the venture, earmarked at one million roubles, to handle crown and Russian merchant commissions and trade with the Porte. Lifton notes, Lifton July 2.
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Holland
Flianders
Petersourg
Fuxe
Grand Siciior
Porte
Fredericks
Constantinople
Fredericks and Co
Lifton
Donna M Ria
St. Vincent
Letter and Commission Details From 1776 Berlin and Philadelphia
The document compiles excerpts from letters and a congressional commission dated 1776. It covers a privateering grant to John Adams and partners for the sloop Chance, and a lavish description of the Grand Duke of Russia’s public entry into Berlin. It also includes a letter from St Helena about East Indiaman movements, and a Baltimore note on political tensions and mayoral finances.
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Philip Moore
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Russia
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Prussia
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Prittwitz
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Rheinsberg
Ankerwyke
St. Helena
Hillsborough
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Ofterley
Grosvenor
Godfrey
George Germaine
Eden
Lee
Samuel Pourvoyance
Ely
Baltimore
Smith
Committee of Safety
Annapolis
Pourvoyance
Thoroughbred races and shipping news from Deal and London
Race reports on July 30 with Lord Grosvenor and Lord Abingdon winners in sweeps and stakes for three and four year olds, plus Deal ship arrivals and departures from August 1. London water height and voyage notes accompany the maritime brief, with advertisements for a Lisbon diet drink offering health claims.
Barber’s tale of voyage and claimed death voyage in 1406
A fragmentary historic note describes a barber and ship crewmate from Porisoninh who, in 1406, claims service on the ship Pharaix and hints at his own death. The text implies disputes over authenticity and his attempts to prove his identity through prior evidence and guardianship.
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Geize South
Wielis
Cary
Wade
Orie Cory
Fletttrea
Curbridge Farm and estates offered for sale at Witney
Public sale by order of the affigme in bankruptcy proceedings includes Curbridge Farm near Winchester and several freehold properties in Alford, Leafield, Handborough, and Oxfordshire. Estates total about 29 acres with cottages and a malt-house. rents range from 2 to 78 pounds yearly. Sale to the best bidder at Staple Hall Inn Witney at twelve o clock. Details available at Woodstock Year Inn Oxford Threadneedle Street London and Mr Edwards's offices on 6 Tuesday next.
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Curzon-Street
Amione
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Newgate
West
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James Smith
Edward Mason
Richard Goodwell
Breang
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Abraham Wandhome
William Warburton
Shoreditch
Benjamin Bates
John Green
Eig’s
Burgis
Hatter
Hoofier
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Gloucester
Cumberland
Rupertreet
Coventry-street
Kent
Lomax
Taliow-Chandier
Sylvester the Elder
Edmund Sylvester
Thomas 3Lvester the Younger
Great Reifltret
Bloomsbury
Fidelitex
Chapmen and Copartisis
Churlay
Oxford
Lhowas Sylvester
Elwe VII
Curbridge Farm
Wincy
Althatl
Leafield
Saipron
Whishwood
Faid
John Rawland
Franklin
Busby
Gos
Handborough
Woodstock
Hannah Nington
Year-Inn
Mr. Edwards
Threadneedie-street
London
Tae
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Milire Faucois Saligiac de la Mothe-Fecelon
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Timollet, MD
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Re Baldain
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Perdill Court
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Oliver Cromwell
Tyre
Tenty
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Collyer
Cooke
de Prince
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Framlinham Castle
Suffolk
Universal Magazine of Knowledge
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Bookeler
Manchester
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Carrie
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