Island government prospects and colonial fisheries letter
A Halifax letter reports St John's Island may become a separate government with no duties on rum and other fishing necessities, encouraging settlers to boost fisheries. It cites 40 fishermen planning to fish on St John’s Island this year instead of Cantons, and includes a New London letter noting Winthrop’s retrieval of the Earl of Warwick's deed to Say and Seal and land grants in Connecticut, suggesting a long inheritance to own and defend.
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Nova-Scotia
Mare
St. John’s Island
Botton
Canto
New London
New
Earl of Warwick
Lord Say and Seal
Lord Brook
Connecicut
South-Sea
Severa
Higr
Workington
Ian Irishman
Kennedys
Kembicot
Highgate-hill
Stevens
Fig-lane
Hampstead
Paddington
Haley
Kilburn
Liffom-green
Yorkshire
Holyoak
Hughes
Walter Hyde
Saunders Welch
George Mercer
Elgis
Islington Fields
Shaw
Anthony
Lambeth
Croydon
Dimock
Oxford-road
Maryboné
Fleet-lane
St. Sepulchre’s
Hill
Ard
Tottenham
Evans
Newgate
Mary Squires
Edmonton
Thomas Philips
Big
Middlesex
Richard, Moore
St. Mary-at-Hill
Fonny Bishop
Bankside
Southwark
James
Crouch
Shoreditch
Sarah Graham
Mr. Middleton
Mary Moshuex
Durrant
Kent
Winter
Dake Street
St. James’s
Godfrey
Edward Godfrey
Houshold
Frederic Prince of Wales
Lincoln’s-inn-fields
Thomas
Payler
Lleden
Canterbury
Lincoln’s Inn
Thornley
Prince‘George of
Denmark
George I
George Ll
Thornford
Dorsetshire
Sampson
Lad-lane
John Rugg
Excise
Chelsea
Thomas William Johnson
Barbadoes
Wandsworth
Samuel Davis
Virginia
Cracow Letters Describe Confederate Excesses and War News
Letters from Cracow recount dismal derelictions by the Confederates in Cracow and Sandomir districts plundering Dissidents homes and provisions including grain. Berlin reports an England dispatch as Sir Andrew Mitchell prepares to move toward the Hague. News from Lifton notes Portugal's merchant privileges and potential war consequences. Versailles festivals for the Dauphin’s marriage begin next week. Reports of the True Friend sloop massacre near Liverpool and Barbadoes dispatches warn drought and crop failures. Multiple passages cover parliamentary debates on American affairs, troop movements, and diplomatic changes. Local crimes, fires, and marriages fill the rest of the column with notices from London and Newcastle.
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Hague
Lifton
Lystelton
Portugal
Tagus
Modena
Versailles
Paris
Constantinople
Europe
Latt
Nazareth
Gertain
Prand
John Burgoyne
Chester
Edward Herbert
William Bramhill
Lord Worthy
Southagepton
Portmouth
Charles Whitmore
Mir
Lytsleton
Lifne
Dis Chatelet Lomont
Dauphin
Duke of Bourbon
England
Duke of Gloucester
Burnaby
Court of
Madrid
London
Earl of Carlifleet
Imarriage
Bryan Stapleton, Bart
Bridget Lane
Parr
Newmarket
Labowrounder
William Mowle
Southward
Torin
Breadsteet
Alderman Walkes
Bellas
Alderman
Wilkes
Elysian-Row
Fulham
Newcastle
Foote
Duke ‘of
Richmond
Goodwood
Dungeness Smuggling Seizure Reported at Shoreham
Shoreham dispatch describes the Jenburgh under Lieut. W Hill intercepting a smuggling vessel from Dungeness with twenty cases of brandy seized and brought to the custom house.
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Shoreham
Thomas Smith Bedding and Upholstery Warehouse Notes
The Corner of Butcher Street facing Temple Bar describes Thomas Smith's new warehouse offering Persia Turkey Wilton Kidderminster and Scotch carpets plus blankets quilts featherbeds counterpanes and ready made bedfurniture. Wholesale bedding for sea or land, large stock, offered at very low cash terms.
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Butcher-Bow
Temple-Bar
Persia
Turkey
Wilton
Kidderminster
Harrateen
Cheney
Linsey
Letter Promoting Marc hant s Drops Cures Scury and Eye Ailments
William Heron testifies from Portsmouth in 1770 that Mr Norton of Golden Square London cured a chronic scurvy with Marc hant s Drops after other medicines failed. He claims relief from blotches, eye weakness, ulcers, fistulas, piles, and blood foulness, noting digestion and appetite improved. Bottles sold by Norton and listed shops.
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Marchant
Tom
Imost
William Heron
Norton
Golden Square
Piccadilly
London
Prietor
John Norton
John Norae
Marcéhant
Piddington
Snow-Hill
West-Smithfield
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Paoli
Moutehin Pobiching
Churchill
St James’s
Charlotte Finch
Prince of Wales
America
PTE
Westminster
Cimerica
East Indies
Stockton
James Collinson
Eig
Sowerby
Rimé
Place
Edinburgh
Watson’s Hospital
Dauber
Branfield
Hope
Waton’s Hospital
Browne
New Square
Country News
Thomas Smith
Mr. Norton
Golden-square
Portsmouth