Destruction and transport losses in wartime letters and notices
The fragmentary piece reports wartime losses near Dunkirk and Dover with mentions of ships and transports. It notes a letter from Dunkirk about men fallen, a Portsmouth letter, and a ship destined on a foreign voyage with secret destination. Notices of auctions and sales follow, including stocks, ships, and a freehold farm with multiple parcels near Lincoln and Horncastle, plus racing and market notices from Lichfield races 1777.
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Dunkirk
Portsmouth
Rose of
Chalorier Oglé
Shrewsbury
Latham
St. Helen’s
East India Company
Lord Holland
Jane Leeds
C.ingsby
Billangah Dale
Tatterthall
Horncastle
Lincoln
Boston
Marta
Barrett
Millstone- Street
Horne Castle
Much
Onderlett
Morlis
Dawson
Gibbons
Scofield
Martin
London
Browne
Kirby-fheery Hatton-Garden
Morrell
Coldbath-Fields
London dispatches from July report Howe with 13000 troops advances on Philadelphia
Friday July 25 from London carries private letters noting Lord Viscount Deerhurst's arrival from America and resignation of his commission. Sir William Howe commands 13,000 rank and file and plans to move through the Jerseys toward Philadelphia while Washington holds key passes. Reports detail supply disruptions, delayed camp equipage, and Washington’s secrecy. ships supply the army as forage and provisions dwindle. Dispatches from the Hague, Halifax, and Cork describe trans-Atlantic movements, captures, and naval actions, with updates on Bengal and other imperial concerns.
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Earl of Coventry
America
New York
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Jerseys
Philadelphia
Washington
Jataciha Codizanier
Samed Fabius
Add
Chesapeak Bay
Ministry
Bound Brook
Pennsylvania
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Hague
Spain
Portugal
Down
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Invincible
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Elphinston
India House
Downs
Bengal
Admiral Mann
Mediterranean
Sir John Day
Eat India Company
Madrass
Day
Duke of Queensbury
Petershant
Corporation of
Londonderry
Ireland
Buckingham House
Kew
Bushman
Miz. Franks
Akermath
Newgate
Brussels
Barry
Covent Garden Theatre
Derby Assizes
Ebenezer Macmerdo
Bishopsgate-street
Miss Starke
Ludgate Hill
Matthew Crowley
New Crane
Wapping
Mills Ann Fletcher
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Isaac Keay. With An Appendix By Mr. Hatton
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