Boston besieged and rebel actions reported from Ireland to Venice
From the London Gazette July 18 to July 19 summaries describe Boston besieged by rebel Provincials, communications cut, houses burned, sheep driven to an island as a skirmish with marines occurs. An armed schooner burns. two men killed, several wounded. Ireland dispatches first troop embarkations to Boston with a general pardon proclamation for rebels except Adams and Hancock. Other brief items note Sicily harvests, a Carthagena fleet delay, Doge Guilliniano crowned, Austrian travels, and Paris gossip on Chartres and Penthievre plans amid potential war.
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Bial
Earl of Dartmouth
Boston
Ireland
Mmdag-Efe-Rce
Gage
Samuel Adams
John Hancock
Mafsaghiferts Bay
Sicily
Madrid
Carthagena
Bet
Yand
Brizio Guilliniano
Vienna
Laxenbourg
Italy
Continental Congress orders 70000 men and funds for war
London reports a Philadelphia telegram stating the grand Continental Congress has ordered 70,000 troops and two and a half million to support the war against Britain. Samuel Adams and John Hancock named as leading figures. Other dispatches note ships and crews detained as prize, arrivals at Falmouth and St Helena, dockyard tension, and dockyard workers striking over wages.
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Boston
Philadelphia
Grand Continental Congress
Great Britain
Samuel Adams
John Hancock
American Continental Congress
Duke of Gloucester
Italy
Duke and Duchess of Cumberland
Duke and Duchess of Gloucester
England
Jamaica
Kityston
Guarda Costas
Supercargo
Nancy
Lesley
Congress
Falmouth
Cook
St. Helena
Colebrooke
Boulton
Salisbury
Bromfield
Portsea apprenticescroll and court notices for December
A late 18th century Portsmouth dispatch reports wage disputes with dockyard apprentices to rise to 7s 6d daily. Correspondent notes Admiralty orders to enroll two apprentices per company, about eighteen companies total. Also covered: omiah's illness after voyage, a Guildhall Court of Aldermen absence, a Common Council summons, a West India captain court case over a black enslaved man, and Sheriff’s execution in Harley Street. Obituaries list Tho Bayles of Colchester, and others. marriages and deaths include Grant and Cray, Rozen and Annis, Lang and Turner, Kinder and Barton, Schroeter and Scot. drownings and other local deaths nudge city life.
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Portsmouth
Deptford
Admiralty
Omiah
Augusta Yateh
Harley
Crosby
Bull
Hadlifax
Thomas
Hopkins
Hayley
Newnham
Lee
Plomer
Hart
Guildhall
Lord Mansfield
Kid’s
Patrick Blake
Justice Sherwood
Temguineas
Middlesex Hospital
Sherwood
Armstrong
Daniel Perreau
Harley-Street
Thomas Frankland
Newgate
Sir Thomas
Alexander Grant
Lud. Grant
Dalvey
Sarah Cray
J. Cray
Tbley
Hants
Jeffintour’ Rozen
Little Pulteney
Frances Annis
Tho. Lang
Hanmah Turner
William Turner
Commissioner Hanmore
Join Kinder
Peckham
Sarah Barton
Rumford
London
Bayles
Colchester
John Baker
Thomas Tellis
Telly
Campbell
George Benson
Bengough
Fortee
Lambeth
Lovelanr
Eastcheap
Mr. Haygarth
Warwick Races 1775 Postponed Two Day Meeting
The Warwick course hosts a two day horse race meeting on September 6 and 7 with purses for four mile heats. Entries close August 1 at the White Lion Inn. disputes resolved by the steward. subscriptions fund expenses and town plates. Royal plates and noble subscriptions feature, with events at County Hall and a cock fight at the Woolpack during the meeting.
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Warwick
White Lion Inn
Sheep-street
Post Co
Lord GU Lrnley
County Hall
Furnished family lodging sought near town with refined tenants
Advert suggests a respectable family will offer lodging in a genteel setting close to town. Applicants should be of the same disposition and well mannered. Letters to A. B. left at Somerset House Coffee House for room details. approval expected before engagement. Local notices include annuity and debt collection offers, with addresses in Whitby and New Bond Street.
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Somerset- House
Whitby
County of York
John Hancock
S . NY
Albert
New Bond-street
N.B
Benjamin L Weatherby
St Catherine’s
The
Tower
London
John ‘Higgons
John Higgons
Thomas Sheppard
Holborn
Weatherby
Burr-street
Wade
George Ray
L&t T
Leighton Buffard
Bedfordshire
Dunstable
Great Hrnckhill
Hill
Queen-street
Lincoln’s Inn Fields
Franklin
Leighton Bouffard
Huntingdonshire
Bullmer’s
Great Staughton
Eyres
Fith Palmer
Bedford
Guildford
Sibthorpe
Barnard’s Law
High Court ‘of Chancery
Thomas Harris
Lincoln's Inn
Sir John Kemp, Bart
Suffolk
Wilfett
John Taylor
Wilfttt
William Reynolus
Mitfield
Mary Vincent
Laxfdld
Mr. Adams
Baudrey Marth
William Whinper
Nor Fu
Bracon Ash
Robert Green
Thomas Faulkner
Giffing
Thomas Caley
Florden
Peter George
Andy Sands
John Livosh
Stoke Milborough
Shropshire
Newton Farm
Stroke Milborough
Salop
Joseph Highway
Ludow
Bridgnorth
Cloobaty Mortimer
Mainwaring
Birmingham
Michael Kbee
Rydal
Kendal
Keswick
Wemerlard
Indermere
Ambidside
Kendale
Kelmick
Knott
Water-Head
Conistone
Lancader
Yorkshire
Handall
Lofthourg
County of
York
Guisborough
Augustus Scottowe
Great Ayton
Scokesley
Mr. Harrison
Johm -Sanderton
Staithes
Pitta Miles
Worcester &H.I.R K
Crown Inn
Adams and Kinderley
Attornias
Emp
Evedham
Worcesterhire
Harry Leng
Pex
Shore
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Thomas Cuddon
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T. Carlon
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W. Clarke
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J. D. Cornish
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F. Newbery
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T. Lownes
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G. Robinson
Johnson
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