This is just the beginning! Our collection holds over 300 years of history, including rare newspapers, obituaries, marriage records, birth records, and so much more—most of which you won’t find anywhere else!
War news and political notes reach across the Atlantic and beyond
Dispatches from London and Paris discuss naval promotions and troop movements as Britain and France edge toward broader conflict. Reports claim the Cape of Good Hope and Brest operations, French frigates captured, and ten thousand seamen impressed. In America, conventions debate a new constitution amid federalist gains and a fatal illness claim, with local notices of shipwrecks and deaths.
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Utrecht
Phatebe
Versailles
Holland
London
Lord Howe
Portsmouth
Brest
Cape of Good Hope
Paris