Sermon and Society News From London in 1739
London readers receive a miscellany of events from February 1739 including a sermon by a noted dissenting minister on false peace, a brisk scene of merchant petitions and police patrols around Westminster, and social notes on marriages, funerals, and notable deaths.
Letter From Block Island Reports Shipwreck near Philadelphia
A Letter dated the 1st Instant to Governor Wanton describes a 300 ton ship cast away on Block Island December 26. It carried 340 Palatines bound for Philadelphia from Rotterdam via Cowes, valued at twenty thousand pounds. About 200 died en route, with 20 more dying after reaching land.
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Block Island
John Wanton
Rotterdam
Cowes
Philadelphia
Ringleaders in Dutch East India Ship Plunder Arrested
Exeter February 21. On Sunday last Philip Davies and John Vivian two ringleaders in plundering the Dutch East India Ship lately left in Bigbury Bay were brought to the County Gaol under a strong guard of soldiers. Yesterday Sir William Courtenay Bart passed through this city on his way to London.
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Thomas Brewer
Ludgate Street
Risley
Thomas Wade
Islington
Pember
Francis Pember
Palsgrave-Head-Court
Beck
Lincolnshire
Keller
Tuck’s Court
Castle-yard
St. James’s Church
Carr
St. James’s Marker
Norman
Albemarle-street
Surrey
Rome
France
St. Christophers
William Woodley
Mr. Symonds
William Akinside
Kensington
Charles Booth
Earl of Warrington
Newington
Buckle
Bread Street
Ratcliff Cross
Rawlins
England
John Barker
Yoxford
Suffolk
Windsor
John Lyon
Thames-street
Garret
Golden Square
Hamlyn
James Hamlyn
Hursday
Hatton Garden
Haberfield
Staple’s Inn
Gilbert
The
London Assurance
Merchant-Taylors Hall
Archbishop of Canterbury
the Common Pleas
St. Paul’s
Country News
Exeter
Philip Davies
John Vivian
Bigbury Bay
William Courtenay
London
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London Evening-Post
Bristol
Westminster Hell
Thomas Gereldine
Duke of Newcastle
Aylesbury
Bucks
Battersea
Thames
Bath
Ashby Johnson
Edward Campbell
Peregrine Audley
Old Baily
George Haggis
Thomas Gibbons
Richard Keble
Haggis
Sarah Main
Gibbons
Keble
Charing Cross
Mademoiselle Chimpanzee
Africa
Salm
Bourdeaux
Dunkirk
Portugal
Lisle
Lorrain
Nancy
Plantation News
Newport