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Newspaper
London Evening Post
Location
London, Middlesex, United Kingdom
Date
Aug 08, 1775
Page
1
The fragmentary notice discusses Blake and Sarah Rue ll of Allhallows Thames street London widow of Andrew Huill cleric and Joseph Are with illegible details. It invites descendants of Joseph Blake to come forward via H N at St Pauls Coffee house with information potentially benefiting both the informant and the discovery of rightful heirs.
The Rev Reynolds Cotton's School in Winchester holds an anniversary meeting of Gentlemen educated there at the George Inn on Wednesday the 30th. Sir Thomas Miller Rev John Penter William Brereton and Mr Carew attend. Tickets and prizes to be had at the George Inn.
Estates or yearly incomes for life may raise temporary funds on short notice and liberal terms. Apply personally or by letter to Mr. Bertie, Winesirec, Piccadilly. Privacy assured. brokers ignored. Officers of rank in the Army and clergymen with livings may be accommodated.
From Flanders to Algiers and Lincoln to Boston a flood of grim items. Aides de Camp wounded in the Algiers expedition. 12 of 16 engineers hurt. William Farmery hanged in Lincoln for murder of his mother amid public crowds. Gloucester and Worcester report death sentences and executions for theft and murder. Philip Pugh executed for murdering his infant daughter. London note from Boston laments lack of provisions and hard times for troops.
The report outlines British generals and brigadiers appointed for America, with Washington as commander in chief of American forces and updates on staff under Howe Clinton Burgoyne and Lord Percy. It lists Continental officers including Gates, Lee, Schuyler, Patnam, and Miffling, plus local York battalion officers and volunteers from the guards. Dispatches note ships and dockyard work, ship movements, and fishing accounts from Greenland, alongside a Dorchester bribery case, an obelisk plan, and social notices of marriages and deaths.
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