Crimps in Chelmsford and a Fire At Dunmow
Quarter Sessions records a 22 year old woman described as genteel and educated, ordered to remain in Chelmsford with a servant. Jaft, a fire at John Edwards near Dunmow, caused by Michael Green, leads to charges of arson and destruction of property. A man is jailed for defrauding a young woman, others held as accomplices. A number of Crimps gather at the Royal Exchange. Bankruptcy noted for Richard Bridges of Froome.
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Essex
John Edwards
Dunmow
Poultry Compter
Robert Ladbroke
Crimps
Royal Exchange
Richard Bridges
Froome
London
O&ber
Craig's Court
Charing Croft
Los
Great Brita
Fragmentary maritime note on sugar, cocoa, and captured nature
A fragmented report describes sugar heads weighing about 15,000 and quantities of coffee indigo and cochineal aboard a vessel. The ship carried a mail which she sank before striking. An account to be given to captors claims French fleet of over a hundred sail, including seven ships of the line, expected at Martinique.
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Plantation News
Boston
Albany
Fort Edward
Halfway Brook
Chafey
Spencer
Rogers
Ticonderoga
Read
Louisbourg
Island Battery
Snow Dreadnought
Willet Taylor
M. John Rogue
Martinico
Old France
Ufider Conoe
Edinburgh
Presbytery
Meir. Hamilton
Dalkeith
Haddington
Country News
Liverpool
Bevington
Bath
Mary Wright
Thomas Wright
Gloucester
George Augustus Selwyn
Ely
Buorn
William Crump
Benjamin Baylis
Unford
D. Randolph
Corpus Christi College
Earl of Arran
House of Convocation
Viner
University of Oxford
Browne
University College
Burford
Port News From Falmouth and Deal Seaports
Port news lists arrivals and sailings at Falmouth and Deal with ships including Constant Jane Jackson for London and Johanna Leg for Cork, plus inward and outward orders for Royal Navy ships Trident Revenge Centaur Arundel and numerous transports bound for Louisbourg Boston Halifax and other destinations. The report notes wind directions and multiple vessels returning to port or departing.
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Port News
Falmouth
Jane
Jackson
Milford
Johanna
Leg
Cork
London
William
Oliver
Yarmouth
Molly
Leton
Plymouth
Friendship
Roberts
Liverpool
Deal
Trident
Revenge
Centaur
Arundel
St. Kitt’s
Ruffel
Louisbourg
St. Joseph del Vella
Bilboa
Ware
Johnson
Lydia
Morris
Matty
S. W
His Majesty
Cary
Hammond
Joseph
Evans
Starling
Lewis
Maxwell
Etherington
Andaluzia
Bradshaw
Nova Scotia
Risk
Rice
Seville
Happy Return
M’taggart
Boston
Robert
Salisbury
Waterford
Union
Major
Antigallican
Horncastle
Resolution
Hogg
Transports
Brotherhood
Fowler
North America
W. Deal
Markham
Halifax
Selby
Dorsdell
North Carolina
William and Ann
Marth
Woods
Holiday
Betsey
Dorset
Portsmouth
Fortune
Hurst
Africa
Arriv
Jamaica
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Middlesex
Kent
Havering
Dagenham
Ripple
Barking
Eaf-Ham
St ’Ef- Ham
Layton
Walthamstow
Bromley
East Marfo
Angellin
Great Ilford
Joan Braptey
Effex
Newmarket
Cambridehire
James Larkin
Salisbury Journal
Blandford
Shaftbury
Shaftsbury Road
Blandford Road
Shaftsbury
Garden
the Shaston Road
Miles
Shaton Shafton
Yeovil
Axminster
The
DORCE
Dorchester
Bridport
Giles
Bohn Hill
R. Baldwin
Lincoln
Yast
Solomon Hanfort
Alford
Wall
Oéber
Spenhamnland
Neivbury
Bath Road
Ohn Smith
Covent Garden
N.B
Andover
Wwilliam Hooper
William Hooper
N. B
Exeter
Poft-Chaife
Macaulay
Prince of Wales
Manchester
Aulay Macaulay
Sc. Ann’s Square
Dublin
Philip Crampton
Baron Mountney
Exchequer
Arthur Herbert
Kilgobbin
Killynea
Clahane
Tralee
Ardfert
Kerry
Richard Simpson
Lifley
Newbridge
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