Diverse Sailors Arrive at Various Ports in 18th Century List
A mangled OCR list records numerous sailors and their origins such as Hughes from Ostend, Robertson from London, St. George Tobin from ditto, Calvert from ditto, Howell from cape Apolonia, Shepherd from ditto, Bell Adams from ditto, Nanty Cummings from New England, Linthorn from Carolina, Dunge Snow from Jersey, Bristol Packet Wieley from St. Kitts, Sally Andrews from Maryland, Polly Sukey from North Carolina, Fanny Boyle from New York, Two Sisters from Flushing, Palmer from London at Bristol, Diana Swanson from Galipoli, Albany Craddock from Jamaica at Dover, with many other names and origins in a port-entry style notice.
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Hughes
Ostend
Civita Vet. C. ‘Ec
Good Intent
Robertson
London
Veice
St. George
Tobin
Ditto
Granades
Royal Gharlotte
Calvert
Gold
Flushing
Pitt
Kardner
Cork
Content
Keete
Royal entertainment and broad colonial news from London
In London yesterday the Duke of Northumberland hosted the Prince and Princess of Brunswick and nobility at Sion House. The Court of Aldermen adjourns after Whitton holidays. Reports note benevolent men plan to loan small sums to distressed weavers, Navy wages may rise, Irish dyers urged to migrate, and Philadelphia prospects for steel and brass artisans. Michigan and Michilimackinac growth, Quebec hopes for a Lake Superior route, and Chesed D Eon’s service shift noted. Shipping updates cover the Prince of Wales East Indiaman arrivals, cargo, and related deaths. Local notices include marriages, duels, suicides, and petty crimes. weather, prices, and odd advertisements fill the remainder. The periodical also markets Warren’s Imperial Milk of Roses as a skin remedy.
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London
Duke of Northumberland
Prince and Princess of Brunswick
Sion Honse
Royal Navy
Ireland
Philadelphia
Italy
Jaf
New York
Michigan
Canada
Rogers
Quebec
Lake Superior
South Seas
Major Rogers
Michitimakinac
Count de Guerchy
Proprietors
Merchant-Taylors Hall
East India House
Prince of Wales East Indiaman
Court
China
India House
Dover
St. Helena
Royal Charlotte
Cruttenden
Prince of Wales
Robert Fletcher
Peters
Plafley
Glover
Duke of Cumberland
John Spencer
Bombay
England
Clements
Downs
Lord Eine
Europe
Northumberland
Midford
Egyptian mummy debate stirs reader imagination on identity
A London Evening Post reader contemplates a posted sale of an Egyptian mummy, pondering its possible identity a great lady from biblical times or a benefactress. The letter muses on chronology and asks readers to imagine who the body might be, while noting the uncertainty of proof and uncertainty around the mummy’s era.
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London
Port Mt. Mzrgis
Egypt
Pathe
Bat
River
Nile
Capt. Clark
British Museum
Moses
London Evening Post
Meres
Engroffer
Yarmouth
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Quere
Great Britain
Providence
Peter Burrows
Guarda Corta
West Indies
Porto Rico
Willes
Topsham
Portsmouth
Barcelona
Spain
Epsom
Strode
Thomas Tucker
Phillips
Herdley Reed
Tucker
North
Lord Guildford
the Treasury
Custom Estate
William Price
Blackbeard
Farringdon
Patterson
Sir John Seebright, Bart
Sackville-street
St. James's
Leonard Chamberlain
Pall-mall
Sally Waterson
Red-lion-square
Thomas Perriam
Clerkenwell
Phoebe Jones
Roger Jones
John-street
Bedford-row
Montague-house
Cox’s Wharf
London-bridge
Goulding Betts
Edward Fielding
Richard Munday
Newgate
Aberdeen
Scotland
Henry Scanderett
Hicks’s Hall
Colebrook
Ratcliff Highway
Antonio
Southwark Bridewell
Sir William Richardson
Richmond
Lillcyd
Sevenoaks
Kent
Surinam
America
Abraham van Capel
Bath
William Vaughan
Benjamin Vaughan
Warren
Richard Warren
Marybonne-street
Golden Square
Cook
Paternofter-row
N. B
Joan Jackson
Wigston Hospital
Leicester
Aldus
Elziver
Stephens
Collinans
John’ Gregory
Booxfeller
Crowder
Paternoster Row
Smith
Dublin
Donaldson
Edinburgh
Oxford
Cambridge
J. Cooke
Harlow and Co
Snowhill
Mr. Meres
Hardenburgenses