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Four Ships Lost in Storms and Dispatches From War
The ship Benjamin of Whitby with 300 tons burden drove on the rocks near Whithurn-steel and broke up. Crew saved except for small portion of rigging. Also four ships from Sunderland and two from Whitby were sunk in the late storm, crews saved. Mermaid and Success men of war at Portsmouth to convoy to South Carolina, first fair wind. Various obituaries and notices follow, including ministers elected, marriages, and local incidents.
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Benjamin
Whitby
Francis Smallwood
Busthen
Bonden
Whithurn-steel
Sunderland
Success
Portsmouth
South Carolina
Whitmore
Ireland
Pole
Eeds
Germany
Geneald Cornvayant Cornwallis
Great Britain
Lord Downe
John Cox
Chiaplain
New College
Oxford
Free Grammar School
Winbourn-Minster
Dorser
Benjamin Forster
Froom Stroud
Lincoln
Laft
St. Michael's
Queenhith
Thomas Harold
Haberdather
Whitechapel
Stiles
Queen-street
Cheapside
St. Andrew’s
Holborn
Richard Hill
James-street
Bedd-Row
Stephens
Profler
Ratcliff Highway
Louisbourg
Momperson
Col
Colvill
Hutton
Humphry Brent
Middle Temple
Queen Anne
George I
James Hervey
Weston Favel
Northampton
Jean Hay
Lord William Hay
Newhall
Murray
Fe’nnight
South Audley-street
Mary Furben
Winchester
John Oxenford
Cobham
Michael Thornton
Surry
Hoddesdon
Hertfordshire
Hope
Parliament-street
Westminster
Mary Smith
Abel Smith
Ludgate-hill
Griefdalé
Harrison