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Leeds Moot-hall elects Samuel Davenport mayor for year
A lengthy Leeds Common-Council session at the Moot-hall saw Samuel Davenport, Esq. elected Mayor for the ensuing year and sworn in Monday. The report lists multiple deaths across Sussex, London, and nearby towns, including William Leeves, Esq., and Mr. Thomas Edmund Pennock. It notes a dramatic drowning anecdote from Aviercliffe and local market cheese and grain price remarks at Chesterfield and Derby fairs, followed by crime and misfortune items and an advertisement for Dr Hateman's Pectoral Drops.
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Leeds
Samuel Davenport
Arundel
William Leeves
Sussex
Chichester
William Smith
George Smith
John Smill
Friday
Brompton
Chathan
Thomas Edmund Pennock
Cornwales
Windsor
Ford
Duke of Cumberland
Craddock
Longdicca
Westminster
Southampton
Archibald Maclane
Virginia
London
Michael Smith
East Smithfield
Nis House
Wandsworth
Wiham Ajon
Hon. East India Company
Henry Goyrey
London-wail
Shep
D. C
Aviercliffe Korg
Chesterfield Fair
Derby
Bear-key
Bailey
Morice
St. Giles’s
John Miller
Ialf
Salt-petre-bank
Rap Fair
Moorfields
Dr. Hateman
Dicey
Oke
Kent
Essex
Norfolk
Ely
Lancashire
Bow Churchyard
Dicey and Co’s