Sailed ships and arrivals at the river port
On Thursday September 17, reports show the Calvert and Carcaud arriving from Quebec and Leghorn respectively, the Dolphin from Alicant, and the Priscilla armed ship with transports for Portsmouth. The Bufalo remains. Winds northeast, Ship activity noted at the river.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Deal
N.E
Calvert
Carcaud
Quebec
Caina
Walroad
Leghorn
Dolphin
Monks
Alicant
Priscilla
Portsmouth
Bufalo
Washingtons army passes Hudson in 160 boats and prisoners exchange
London reports Washingtons forces crossed the Hudson in about 160 boats chiefly on wagons at King's Ferry. Over 700 rebel prisoners were sent to Elizabeth Town for exchange. Count D Estaing arrives in New York and British actions along the Jersey shore are noted. Several ships and privateers are captured or misreported, with Congress approving thanks to Washington for Monmouth.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Shrewsbury
East Jersey
Toulon
Sandy Hook
Languedoc
Tonant
Calar
Hettor
Guerrier
Protector
Marseilles
Zele
Valiant
Provence
Fantasque
Sagittaire
Engageant
Chimere
Clement
Delaware
Philadelphia
Mons. Gesard
Christian
United States
Chester
Market Street
Congress
Progtor
D’estaing
Dean
Paris
Sussex County
Washington
Morris
New Ark
Elizabeth Town
Jersey
Valley Forges
Grand Army
Sir Henry Clince
Newark
Monmouth
Charles Thomson
Armaments and prizes pledge from the Vice Admiral
A fragment notes an oath that all armaments enjoy the most intense practices under Christian Majesty’s squadron and that any prizes seized belong solely to them. It mentions American vessels applying to the Vice-Admiral for signals, signed Gerard and published by Order of Congress through Charles Thompson, Secretary.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
D’estaing
France
United States
North America
Gerard
Congress
Charles Thompson
Sec’ry
Adarm's Lottery Promises Gain Despite Draws of Chance
A historic advertisement by J Sharman promotes a Royal Patent lottery offering shares at 24s and 4l per quarter with a claim that no loss occurs for adventurers. It outlines prize structure including a 1000 pound top prize and multiple chances across ten days of drawing, with assurances of resale, open office hours, and safety of investment amid 48,000 tickets.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sharman
Moléf
Adve
Lrd
Frois Buller
Sul C.cor
Retorder
London
Ft Eminent Council
At-Lare
Cfze
Fleet-street
Shareman
Marth
Wrexham
North
Wales
Mesirs
Bordero, Kendalls,and Co
Shar Sian
Fire consumes huts near Liverpool volunteers
On Tuesday morning at nine an outbreak started in a hut behind the Liverpool volunteers. A woman lighting a candle set the hut aflame, spreading to other huts and destroying over fifty huts, two butcher shops, a brewhouse, and three public houses. The wind being easterly limited the damage. Generals Pierson, Lindsey, and Hall were praised for swiftly ordering picquet guards to act.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lord Drummond
Artigua
Philadelphia
Capés of the Delaware
Phaenix
Hastings Road
St. Clement’s Church
Candlewick
Philip.Milloway
Peter Perchard
Abchurchlane
Thorpe
Chegter Alley
Weaitecross Street
Lewes
Hephertion
Bath
Lucullus
Damper
Duke of Cumberland
Little Isaac
Old Bailey
Liverpool Volunteers
Pierson
Lindsey
Hall
Picquet
ARCISSUS or The Young Man's Entertaining Mirror
Neatly printed pocket volume issued at 25. 6d sewed or 45. bound. The book promises a humorous yet proper guide to manners from infancy to maturity. It exhorts genteel behavior at church table home and in public with lessons in conversation poetry music dancing fencing and polite address drawing from Don Gracian and British manners. Charles Wiseman edited or compiled the work published in London at Jos Bew.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Arcissus
Don Lucas Gracian de Antife
Old surgeon disparages bougies for urinary obstructions
Advertisement by J Collet Sr at Tavistock-row Covent-garden claims cures for longstanding urinary obstructions without bougies. He denounces other surgeons, asserts personal honesty and religious beliefs, and invites readers to contact him at No 7 Tavistock-row before 2 or after 5.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bougies
Hutid
England
Tavistock-row
Covent-garden
J. Collet SR
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Knowler
Malaga
Bover
Diamond
Stock
Gallipeli
Dover
Basrat
Woods
Jamaica
Liverpool
Prosperity
Clifton
Ditto
Tyger
Rogerson
Molly
Ball
Arvinagton
Compte D
Rhode Iland
Dunlap
Pennsylvania
Roebuck
Cape Henlopen
Mont. Gerard
Plymouth
Kingston
Fowler
Britis
Hodges
Thompson
Aseley
Parker
Ann
Rusfell
Blagrove
Campbel
Mars
Finley
Peck
Mc Intosh
Dorothy
Mary
Seward
Tyloe
Currier
Nathaniel Bailey
Morse
Atlantick
Maitland
George
Trenham
Prince George
Fryer
Morant
Carter
Samuel
Bargrie
William
Charlotte
Henderson
John
Peters
Rofvan
Burrows
Innes
Frazier
Henry
Daily
Augustus Cesar
Duffield
Ruby
Corke
Heart of Oak
Port Au Prince
Havre de Grace
Crosby
Chatham
East Indies
London Gazette
Long
Sland
Byron
St. James's
Admiralty Court
Doctor’s Commons
Bowman
Ostend
Woolwich
Spithead
Yarmouth
Admiral Young
Leeward Islands
Mr. Stephens
Gazete
Lamb
Angelica
Hallifax
Barbadoes
Rhode Island
Dering
New-York
Falmouth
Duke of York
Dashwood
Rochelle
Admiral Keppel
Extrag
Lester
Bourdeaux
Andromeda
Cork
Gibraltar
Randhope
Brown
Norway
Surprizé
Garrniegs
Spain
le Roy
the King
Eraneis Delile
Elizabeth Cox
Joseph Green
George Goodwin
Esther Quin
Five Fields
Chelsea
James Durham
William Watkins
J. Sharminere
Warley Common
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