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Newspaper
London Evening Post
Location
London, Middlesex, United Kingdom
Date
Sep 20, 1760
Page
2
An 1760 electoral appeal to Gentlemen Clergy and Freeholders of Worcester County urges votes for wise candidates. It appeals to liberty integrity and service, urging honourable conduct and support for responsible representatives in parish duties and public office.
Admiralty announces a special Oyer and Terminer to try offences on the high seas under the 32nd year of the Crown. The session will be held Thursday October 32 at Justice Hall, London, at eight in the morning. Future sessions set for March and October in each year. Signed PH Stephens.
A July 12 account from Plantation News in Charles-Tenun South Carolina reports Abraham an express from the Army led by Col Montgomery returning to Fort Prince George on June 28 and recounts a June 2 Fort Prince Gebree letter describing marches June 25 26 and clashes with a Thicket Indians party near the Settlements including a captured prisoner and casualties among Capt Morrison and others.
An expedition describes a grueling engagement where advancing troops pressed an Indian town, suffered rifle volleys, and lost horses. The column, led by the colonel and Lieut. Col. Grant, pressed the enemy, then retreated through a narrow path to reform. Casualties included Captain Williams and several Royals, with warnings of renewed attacks as night fell.
Extrats from letters dated June 26 and July 29 describe Commodore Douglass burning St. Joseph village in Dominica and removing vessels, amid reports of a large English fleet near Martinique and speculation of a siege. Accounts mention ships of the line, transports, and a vessel from Marblehead confirming St. Joseph destruction.
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