Robbery and naval dispatches amid 18th century storms
Taft Thursday Night Mr Hill of Plaistow and Mr Tollman of Stratford were robbed in Stratford Stage-Coach by a shoemaker who lived there and joined the man shot during the Colchester coach theft. Morning tolls report 50 convicts shipped from Newgate to Blackfriars on a lighter to the colonies. Various ship actions: Langdon and Hall privateers near Cuba, enemy wrecks, captures, and prizes. vessels ashore near the Isle of Wight and Weymouth. stock quotations and banking notes accompany the maritime long diary. Enhanced by cargo losses and the Hannah and other ships reaching ports after perilous weather.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Taft
Hill
Plaistow
Tollman
Stratford
Colchester
Newgate
Black Fryars
Ely
Southwark
Wood-Street
Commissioners of Excise
Langdon
Hall
South- Carolina
Cuba
Carthagena
Charles Town
France
Legance
Anguin
Omaica
Madeira
Chaloner Ogield
St. Helen’s
Jamaica
King George, Ayres
London
South Carolina
Cowes
Lizard
We of Wight
Bianfocd
Mitchell
Studland Bay
Wight
Yarmouth
Weymouth
Pogiland
Maynard Matter
Am- Serdam
Cadiz
Picoas
King of
Hannah
Tiffin
Philadelphia
Margate Road
Prem
Oda
Royal Exchange
Annuity proposal and prisoner escape notice 1740
A letter from Dec 4 1740 seeks buyers for an annuity to age up to 4001 yearly, payable during the life of the seller or joint lives, offered at George's Coffee House near Temple Bar. Also a Rutland county jail alert for William Davis and Robert Man, noted horse theft and house breaking, with rewards three to five guineas for capture.
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Spring-Garden
Aceon
A. B
George's Gottee-House
Devereux-Court
Temple-Bar
Okeham
Rutland
William Davis
Robert Man
Davis
Wilkinson
John Powell
Gorditch-street
Cirencester
Fitunce
Rojslip
Middlesex
James Myoner
Wallbrook
High Court of Chancery
Robert Holford
Symond’ S Irm
Chancery
Lane
Feyvern
Ashurst
Spedhurst
Penshurst
Chiddingstone
Westerham
Bra
William Kinafson
Trefeglos
Lanidlogs
Langerrig
Lau
Lost brown and white dog from Cambridge road
An Englishman advertises a brown and white dog from Cambridge area missing since Saturday. The animal bears a brass collar engraved Robere Colehbrook Esq Chitham Castle Kent 1740. Reward offered by James Colebrook Esq. Said to have been seen near Ware and followed two gentlemen toward Cambridge. If found, inform the owner for a guinea reward.
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James Colebrook
New Broad-street
Ware
Cambridge
Robere-Colehbrook
Chitham-Castle
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