Naval movement and arrivals in the Downs and Gravesend
Deal and the Downs report ships remaining and arriving including the Union Vestal Racehorse Spy Savage and Wolf sloops with winds S S E and N E. Gravesend notes Endeavour motion from Frederickthall Lawson Tryton Tweedale and others, and lists multiple vessels arriving at various ports including Sally Cafan Martha Blackburn Windsor Sally Molly Whitfield and others from Atlantic ports.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Deal
Downs
Union
Vestall
Racehorse
Savage
Wind
S.S.E
Spy
New
Wolf
Dal
Norwich
Hussar
William and
Anne
Vestal
N.E. Gravesend
Endeavour
Robinson
Frederickthall
Lawson
Hill
Tryton
Tweedale
John
Dorothy
Watson
Petersbourg
Spencer
Hudson
Trulove
Swanson
Riga
Providence
Popplewell
Wybourg
Franklin
Dantzick
Sally
Cafan
Virginia
Barbadoes
Martha Blackburn
Windsor
Clark
Baker
Liverpool
Philadelphia
London
Finglass
New York
Portsmouth
Molly
Waris
Pool
Whitfield
Gambia
Benjamin
Hughes
Genoay
Finby
Davie
Bristol
Maryland
Hope
Cunningham
Jamaica
Neptune
Morris
Lynn
Norway
Thomas
Sarah
Jackson
Fom
Scott Fugate
Stewart
Letters From Cape Breton and Ticonderoga Mutiny Report
Letters on a French Prize reveal distress at Cape Breton due to scarce provisions and disease with plans to Desert later. Another letter describes Parker Ogden detachment ambushed at Ticonderoga, most of their men killed or captured, only Parker and Ogden surviving. Also notes privateers along Goa Bombay coast and a Plymouth sloop impressment incident.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cape Breton
Paris
France
MM. de la Motte
Tillichery
East Indies
James
Bombay
Goa
Fort William Henry
New-York
John Parker
Robert Maginis
Jonathan Ogden
Campbell and
Cotes
New-York Regiment
Ticonderoga
Iland
Col Parker
Ogden
Maginis
Woodward
Shaw
Campbell
Parker
Glazier
West
Fort Edward
Detigny
Plymouth
Desertion and impressment in naval distress reported
A narrative describes a man carried to a cartel ship then hospital ship at Plymouth, later purchasing a 50 ton sloop, being loaded with oats to London, re-impressed near Portsmouth, and tried by court martial for desertion with a death sentence awaiting London. Also noted are deaths of George Dyer Ely and Humphry Bell, a robbery in Bristow Causeway, and bankrupts including Thomas Hunt Henry Scott and George Norton.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Brett
Plymouth
Plymbouth
London
Portsmouth
N.B
Mortimer Street
George Dyer
Ely
Clapham
Humphry Bell
Virginia
Bristow Causeway
Coal Harbour Lane
Thomas Hunt
St. Thomas the Apostle
St. Mary Aldermary
Bow-Lane
Lodon
Taylor
Chapman
Henry Scott
St. James Westminster
Middlesex
George Norton
Heighington
Durham
Woburn Abbey Notice and Kelway Trust Advertisement
Bedfordshire deputy lieutenants and justices are urged to meet at the Swan Inn Bedford by ten in the forenoon on Friday next. Creditors of Alexander Mathison must claim dividends via Lombard Street London or Dover. A notice of Henry Kelway's Plymouth trust invites Kelway kin to prove relation and file claims at Plymouth before March first, or be excluded.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Woburn Abbey
County of
Bedford
Swan Inn
Alexander Mathison
Orham
Kent
Milton
R. Wilsoneaind Son
Lombard-Screer
London
John Browne
Dover
Henry Kelway
Saltash
Cornwall
Lace
Plymouth
Mr. Kelway
Kelway
Thomas Veale
N.B. Ic
Sale of Lease and outfitting two ships for expedition
Auction of a lease at the Saracen’s Head Inn Wolseley Bridge with two lives in the lease and goods to be included. Simultaneously notice of Commodore Wilson’s Hawk and the Fly sailing from Gun Dock Wapping for a cruise against the king’s enemies. Seamen may join for prize money advances before setting sail.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wolseley Bridge
Safford
John Dunn
Hickin Intafford
Confort
Charles Wilson
Epward Reap
Wapping
For Sale Freehold Farm with 70 Acres in Bradfield Yorks
Sold as a single freehold estate in Bradfield Chapelry Yorks known as RocHer-Hean. Tenanted by John Ibbotson, it includes two farm houses two barns cow houses stables and other conveniences. Encloses over seventy acres of arable meadow and pasture with potential for improvements. Further details from Mr John Hawksley Sheffield Yorks.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bradfield
County of
York
John Ibbotson
John Hawksley
Sheffield
Yorkshire
Auction notices of bankrupt Thomas Warner properties
Bankruptcy assignees announce auction sales of Thomas Warner estate holdings. Items include a ready-made malt house, granaries, water pumps, and four tenements in Huntingdon district plus a large Weymondsey farm with 120 acres, stables, and common rights. Listings specify locations Hitchin and Weymondley, with contact inquiries to Bull, Rutt, and Orman for details.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Crown Inn
Runtiveton
Atlignees
Thomas Warner
Bankruge
Tuk
Hitates
Huntingdon
Jol Drury
John Lencott
Harding
William Pigoe
N.H
Leafe
Aunum
Auin
Sun Inn
Hitchin
Hert
Frederick Bull
Leadenhall Street
Lontorn
George Rutt
John Orfman
Weymondley
Herefordshire
Medley of Naval News From Milan and Surrounds
Yesterday arrived the Mail from Holland Naples Aug 4. Troops quartered here and in other places were reviewed. a list will be presented to the King. Admiral Osborne’s squadron sails the Mediterranean. consuls request liberty for neutral ships. Pope and Spain tax on ecclesiastical revenues debated. Trieste not threatened by English ships, Venice Aug 20.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Oborne
Leghorn
Mediterranean
Rome
Osborne
Tratck
France
Spain
Turin
Nice
Toulon
Venice
Trieste
Adriatick
Also Mentioned on This Page
Darsham-House
Suffolk
Earl of Powis
Howler
Darsham House
Spackman
White Horse
Ipswich
Bradshaw, Upholder
Soho Square
Tole
Soris
St. Jon
Melehtiorn
Bedfordshire
Machogany
Holland
Naples
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