Silk culture praised by assemblies in New Jersey and Pennsylvania
Reports from Philadelphia dated April 36 note managers of silk contributions praise English filk quality and prices. New Jersey Assembly agrees to support silk culture with a 10001 bounty upon verified subscriptions. Pennsylvania Assembly encourages similar action following last year’s example. Williamsport mentions Jobin Byré, a transported felon, dying soon after arrival with 25,000 in banknotes and 50 guineas found.
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Philadel
England
House of Assembly of
New-Jersey
Pennsylvania
Williamslurg
Jobin, Byré
Fire kills farmer and boy in Perthshire home
From Perth Shire we learn that in the night between Saturday and Sunday a fire at a farmer's house in Moneidy parish four miles north of Perth consumed the dwelling. The farmer and a boy perished in their beds. Extra reports identify another fatality at Drumkilbo near Cowpar of Angus and an incident near Strathpey involving a fatal shooting during a family dispute.
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Edinburgh
Perth- Shire
Moneidy
Perth
Jak
Drumkilbo
Cowpar
Angus
James Nairn
James Grant
John Grant
M'Gibbon
Grant
M‘gibbon
Gibbon
Address of the House of Commons of Ireland to the Lord Lieutenant
In Dublin on June 28 the Irish Commons presented to the Lord Lieutenant a letter expressing perfect confidence in his prudent administration and paternal regard for the kingdom. They affirm loyalty and request his continued residence among them. A few days earlier Robert French Esq, former judge of the Court of Common Pleas, died in Dublin.
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Ireland
Dublin
House of Commons
Commons of
Funez
Robert French
Court of Commons
de Grey
Common Pleas
Ratter Ferm
Higceria
Coldstream Regiment of Guards
Hyde Park
Sorrell
Blackheath
Royal Navy
Taig
Warranc
Thames-street
Wilson
Lincoln
St. Paul’s Cathedral
Dr. Green
New York
Jamaica
Havannah
New-York
Duke of Cumberland
Goodridge
Falmouth
Lisbon
Robinson
Elizabeth
Wolf
North Carolina
Mary
Jones
Bay of Honduras
Lucretia
Creek
Genoa
Hamburgh
Fleet Beach
Weymouth
Hoare
China
Woolwich
Philippine Islands
Oxford and Canterbury Clerical Appointments Reported
In Oxford Sir George Nares, a judge, resigned the Recordership of the city, and Hon. Mr. Wenman, fellow of All Souls, was unanimously chosen as Recorder in his room. In Canterbury the Dean and Chapter presented Rev. Mr. Mathew to the Vicarage of Tenterden, void by the resignation of Rev. Mee Tafwell. In Northampton, Simon Oliver Faylor, Esq. of Irthlingborough, married Mrs. Ann Gough of Perry Hall, Scaffordshire.
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Oxford
Tenterden
Mee Tafwell
Northampton
Funk
Laf
Simon Oliver”Faylor
Irthlingborough
Wellingborough
Ann Gough
Walter Gough
Perry Hall
Scaffordshire
Publican in Fellingham Fights, Shoemaker Dies in Row
In Priday laht a Sharmaker at Fellingham, after a liquor spree, challenged any man to wrestle or fight. An argument escalated. he struck the Shoemaker, who died. Keys absconded. Also notes an election for Coroner in Maidstone and royalist militia celebrations in West Kent.
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Chelossfords
Priday-laht
Sharmaker
Fellingham
Ipfurich
Fune
King
St. Peter’s College
Cambridge
St. Matthew
Layton
Maidstone
Southouse
Williams
St. ‘Coast
Roger Twisden and
Brook
Wet
Malling
West-Kent
Lord Rominey
Shipping News Briefs From Jamaica to Maryland
The ship New s Deal arrived yesterday then sailed for the river with India Pilot Boyce and the Northumberland East Indiaman. Friendship Thompson from Jamaica, Grace Currey from St Vincent's, Jenny from Cowes, and several others remain in the Downs. Lady Juliana Stephenson from Jamaica reaches Dover, Industry Forbes from Oporto at Sandwich, Prince of Wales Beales from St Kitts at Sandwich, Rose May Hind from the Grenades at Sandwich, Ann from Georgia at ditto, Marty Fox from London at Virginia, Jenny and Polly Lawrence from ditto at Maryland, Potomack Cock from ditto at ditto.
London Dispatches and Contested Polish Divisions Abroad
Yesterday morning Mr Roberts, a King's Messenger, departed from St James's with dispatches for the British Ambassador in Vienna as Vienna and Berlin clash over Poland and Lithuania. A new French East India Company threatens English rivals, while Valentia’s cause ends in favour of the sitting Lord. Gibraltar reports Moroccan armed vessels seizing a Dutch ship and enslaving its crew, with ransom paid for English prisoners at Tetuan. Parliament adjourns after a busy day, and the Primum Mobile shows little regard for Commons business.
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L O.N
Roberts
St James’s
Vienna
Berlin
Poland
Lithuania
Versailles
East-India Company
France
Holland
East India Company
Valentia
Ireland
Gibraltar
Morocco
Amsterdam
Tangier
England
Tetuan
Barbary
House of Commons
Night in Pasay and London disturbances and notices
A long column of varied 18th century items notes political bustle in London with mentions of Aldermanic elections, sheriffs, and royal bonfires. It reports social events, church scene at St Pauls, and a papal Pilgrimage plan, plus shipwrecks, naval appointments, and market prices. It catalogs arrests, trials, accidents, deaths, and marriages, peppered with local appointments and weathered by a miscellany of domestic notices.
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Hoare Las
Matha Baulk
Symmonds
Wilmott
Tottenham
Moore’s Patent
Hyde
Bellows
Edmonton
Charles Lockett
Lockington
Neale
Fordyce
James
Downe
House of Correction
Dartford
Kent
John Ruffell
Greenwich
Edward Austen
St. Nicholas’s
Depford
Newgate
Matthew Martin
Bath
Ong
Smithfield
Turnmill-Street
St. Bartholomew’s Hospital
Blackfriar’s Bridge
Golightly and Co, Distillers
Holborn
Drury Lane
Thomas Tabb
Stanmore
Middlesex Hospital
St. Giles’s
Cotne Exchange
Griffiths, Linnen Draper
Watling-street
Ann Gubbey
Berrycourt
Aldermanbury
Richmond
Surry
Edmund Dawson
Dragoon’ Guards
Lamb’s Conduit
Davies
Marybone
Puddle Dock
Thames Streets
Bell
The
Lime Company
Sareyday
Blackman
St. John’s Breec
Westtminster
Margate
John Dawson
Batavia
George Wellwood
James Maxwell
Bristol
Marcellus Laroon
Scots Greys
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