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Stormy voyage and deaths linked to Montsferrat storm
Reports describe a voyage with the Two Bettys of Liverpool and a ship for Lancaster meeting a three day storm off Crooked Island in the Windward Passage. A French ship lost its masts. further, the Fane and Sutton were said to perish with crew. Also noted are various obituaries, court notices, and assignments from Dublin, Cork, and London, including a highway robbery and other local incidents.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Liverpool
Lancaster
Crooked Iland
Cork
Montsferrat
Hughes
Kirwan
St. Thomas’s
Fane
Sutton
London
Verney
Viscount Feermannagh
Kingdom of Ireland
Nicholson
Clapham
Streatly
Reading
Berkshire
John Rush
George I
Windsor
Berks
Jaft
Charles Dartiquenave
Board of Works
Hammersmith
Sanderson
Clement’s Inn
Laft
Saville- Row
Bell
Countess of Montrath
Bath
Anthony Ponsonby
Norfolk
Viscount Duncannon
William Dixon
Lincoln’s Inn
Thomas Winnington
the Treasury
Hertfordshire
Turpin
Richard Brocas
Newhate
Ludgate-street
Black Friers
Mary Humphreys
Edward Good
Mary Shepherd
Penelope Jordan
Col. de Veil
Pel Bridewell
Penelope Jordaf
St. James’s Parish