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!
Ships and events from Bengal to Cadiz and local notes
Post from the Downs reports Cox Saville and Hilton returning home as part of the Company’s Fasters aboard the Walpole and other ships. Bombay dispatches note a death at sea and arrivals from Bengal and Bombay. Local items include a horse race wager won by Downs’s Mare, Worcestershire politics, Irish coal trade growth, a murder trial in Wells where Charles Jones was acquitted, a Dorset wreck near Rotterdam with saved passengers, and Cadiz reports of a large fleet preparing for possible bombardments and a new Spanish East Indian Company funded with thousands of dollars per share aiming at China Malabar Canton and Bengal.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cox
Saville
Hilton
Ladia Hontse
Walpole
Natta
Hutchinson
Bengal
Grantham
Hall
Fiel
Madrass
Greenwich
Booky
Blatborough
Cape Hunt
Bombay
Downs
Gapti Mifensi
Compton
China
Zelon
Marlorough
St. Helena
Naflan
Monmouth
Montgomery
Yses
Ralph ‘Winter
Madyass
Rowland Freeman
Blackmore-street
Croydon
Streatham
Worcester
Richard Lockwood
Samuel Sandys
Ireland
Ballycastle
Wells
Charles Jones
Price
Roterdam
Windsor
James Allen
London
Alicant
Don Blas de Lizo
Malaga
Levant
Algier
Cadiz
Cogumand
Serano
Oran
Cor de Roy de Ville
Darias
N.S
Algiers
Sardinia
Malabar
Chormondel
Manilla
Canton
Asturias
Seo