London News Roundup of Merchants Pleas and Courtrooom Reforms
A long London digest reports petitions from American merchants urging repeal of harsh laws, with a claim that 200,000 pounds is owed by America. It covers trader meetings at Guildhall and Bristol letters on ships from New York with wheat flour timber and rice, plus the Grosvenor East Indiaman voyage plans. Also noted are crime trials, transportation sentences, ship arrivals and weather notes with high water at London Bridge.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Quebec
America
Commons
Brifial
Society of Merchant Adventurers
Guildhall
Bristol
Cruger
Mallard
New- York
London
Terceira
Gravesend
Saunders
Downs
China
James Hodges
Aldersgate
Fouch
Piercy
Fisher
Maud
Brogden
al- Gridge
Wright
Yates
Oriel
Manning
Robins
Meff
Aldridge
House of Grey
Esg
Hammersmith
Charles Rolfe
Hammermith
Old Bailey
Daniel M‘clough
Richard Chapman
Richard Fint
James Morgan
Godfrey Thornton
Hannah Field
William Freer
William Butts
William Cotton
Stephen Chapman
Elizabeth Robinson
Joseph Garret
Thomas Hancock
Ann Simpson
John Bacchus
Frances Bailey
Elizabeth Ellis
Robert Partridge
Tavistock Street
Wall
Cranbourne Alley
Elizabeth Hoare
Brown
Kirkman
John Brown
Edward Welch
Richard Thorne
Advices from America reports colonial petitions and militia plans
The Boston bulletin recounts the Continental Congress addressing a petition to the British king and urging London agents to press for relief and publication. It notes Lord Dartmouth’s orders on war stores, ships, and militia strengthening, and Marblehead’s town meeting appointing committees for defense and rebel lists. It includes Hancock’s Provincial Congress message urging militia discipline and unity, and Cambridge resolutions calling for frequent provincial representation and fresh delegates to safeguard liberties.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Boston
Grand Continental Congress
Philadelphia
London
America
Paul. Wentworth
Benjamin Franklin
William Botton
Arthur Lee
Thomas Lite
Edmund Burke
Charles Garth
United Kingdom
Great Britand
Ministry of Parliament
Congress
Henry Mippleton
Lord Dartmouth
Great Britain
His Majesty
Privy Council
England
Asia
Boyne
Massachusetts
Marblehead
Henry Gardner
Grey
Towm
Massachusets Bay
Tony
Haly
House of Commons
Gretaperitain
Bolton
Providence
North America
British Empire
Europe
Britain
American Association
Association
John Hancock
Benjamin Lincoln
Readable Crisis Speech on British Colonies Controversy
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America
Fias
Hous of Commons
Goodby and Berry
Stationers
Sweetings Alley
Royal Exchange
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Sueno
Ondon
Og . Merritt
Gaetan
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Mr. Jago
Snitterfield
Warwickshire
Tho. Beal
Bond-street
Watchspaker
Miss Bouton
James Vining
Baker
Longlane
Smithfield
Mary Sale
Leadedhall
Holborn
Field
Robin’s .Coffee-house
Temple Bar
John
Greenway
Oxford
Deal
Jane
Reed
St. Kitt's
Arabella
Bryant
Plymouth
Wind S
London Bridge
Cambridge
New-England
General Assembly
Charles Town
Brooke Line
Roxbury
Dorchester