Port Porter ships and wrecked Guinea crew flee
Bofton report from March 28 describes Capt Porter returning from Barbadoes after a 35 day voyage. A rescue boat brought two men, one dead, the other claiming they belonged to a Guinea ship that sank after a leak. They died of hunger and fatigue. Porter survived. A gale forced him to abandon sail. Bermuda letters warn of bread famine due to corn shortages, with many poor lasting on herbs.
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Porter
Arriv
Barbadoes
Coops
Cabouse
Bermuda
South Carolina
Freland Dublin Deaths and Local Notices
Freland Dublin June 7 reports several deaths including Rev Edward Drury of Rathmore near Dublin and Rev Essex Edgworth of Longford Grannard. Henry Stevens junior, master in Chancery, died of mortification. Trinity College fellowship conferred on M Donald. Carlow election held for Burgess to replace Mr Humphrys. lightning struck Birr area causing fatalities and property damage.
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Freland
Dublin
Laft
Warburgh-street
Adrian Bulkely
Edward Drury
Rathmore
Essex Edgworth
Longford
Grannard
Henry Stevens
M’donald
Trinity College
Molloy
Dunlees
Pechell
Birr
Harrison
Ballinafioe
Carlow
Humphrys
Deceas
Richard. Butler, Bart
Grantham
Scotland Edinburgh Notice of Dundonald Inheritance
Edinburgh notices report the burial of a family member and the succession of his eldest son William to the estate and honors of the Dundonald earldom. The document also mentions James Gray, a Gardiner at Leith, involved in an account of an incendiary betuer-fenr to the city.
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Scotland
Edinburgh
Funes
Thomas Cochran
Earl of
Right Hon the Countess of Wemyss Indicted in Scotland
London daily notes a string of incidents from Westminster Abbey theft to aristocratic marriages. It reports the Countess of Wemyss facing indictment by the High Court of Justiciary, plus local crime tales in London and Hertford, and political shifts as MPs Luttrell and Carew are linked to Minehead and Southampton seats.
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Countess of
Wemyss
High Court of Justiciary
London
Westminster Abbey
Duke of Buckingham
George Harrison
Balls
County of
Hertford
Feild
Stansted
Jenkins
Essex
Orlando Humfreys
Hounslow-Heath
Turpin
St. Giles’s
Bloomsbury
Drury-lane
Alexander’ Luttrell
Minehead
Somersetthire
Duanster Castle
John Trevelyan
Nettlecomb
Thomas Carew
Crowcombe
Somerset
Alexander Luttrell
Deceas
Carew
Malthus Ryal
Surrey
Charles Hofier
Gitizen
Minichex
Daniel Parker
Philip Scarrh
Peer Ganifén
Thomas Raffel
John
Southampton
Dummer
Taunton
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London Evening-Pott. J
Plantation News
Bofton
New England
Robert Dundas
Aristoun
Westminster
St. Paul’s
Vintners Hall
Jermyn Davers
Princess of Wales
Windsor
Tooley-straet
Southwark
William‘Laffeau
Peatick
Botherhith
Tolfon
Bithopfate-street
Deptford
Smith'Meggot
Hartley-Dawn
St. Saviour's
Georgé Meggoir
Edmund Halsey
Great Britain
John Lade
Jaff
Johnson’s Court
Fleet-Street
Matthew Wellfley
Tunbridge Wells
Thomas Renton
Charing-Cross
Liney
Hounslow
Wilmer
Milter
Cobham
St. George’s‘Fields
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