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Newspaper

Public Ledger

Location

London, Middlesex, United Kingdom

Date

Dec 29, 1761

Page

2

Shipping arrivals and sailings from various ports

Dec 25 to Dec 27 reports arrivals and departures in Southampton Cowes Gravesend and other ports. Vessels include Moliff neil Racehorse Providence Jersey Flower Spit-Tread and Industry outbound. Bonetta Yarmouth and Peggy to convoy. Morings at Bermuda New York Dublin and Whitehaven ports noted with vessels such as Esther Prince Edward Bell Savage and Fair Lady.

Southampton Foster Falmouth Neil Cook Exeter Lihou Guérnsey Jersey Chevalier Cowes Hempseed Senegal Edgar Newcastle Gibraltar Dewi Wind N.N.W Nifhenson Philadelphia Cleveland Rogers Cork Luticia Ricloff Leghorn Lady Catherina Freeragratia Terra Nova Bermuda Esther Robinson Phidelphia South Carolina Prince Edward Walker Quebec New York Bell Savage Lewis Bristol Petersburgh Integrity, Brown London Dublin St. Antonio Alma Cafta Seville Whitehaven John Bella Green Virginia Liverpool Fair Lady Harrison Barbadoes

Conflicts and treaties fill Warsaw to London dispatches

ExtraG from Warsaw reports M Wogeroff presenting a memorial to the Polish court. It claims Russia ordered twelve thousand troops to winter in Great Poland to deter a noble confederacy, with the Polish court to grant no action without royal consent. Noblesse envoys seek paternal intervention to drive Russians from the Palatinate. The King’s reply awaited. Other items note Spain building warships, regiments formed, and Galicia and Andalusia campaigns. Trade, arrivals, and naval movements across Cadiz, Plymouth, and New York areas are listed with ships like Susannah and Kronenburg. Royal appointments, honors, and public measures follow, including Parliament seats and Lord Mayor actions.

London Warsaw M. Wogeroff Great Poland Palatinate Great Poland Grand Duchy of Lithuania Spain Genoa Galicia Andalusia Vigo Ponte Vedra America France Earl of Bristol Lisbon Duke de Choiseul Count Fuentes Count de Pointe Fuerte Hague Count de Torrero Consol Cadiz Mongkton Sandy Hooke Seward Islands Susannah Alcide Man New-York John Morgan Matter Exeter New-haven Plymouth Havannah Capolina Friend Portsmouth Philadelphia Prince William Williams New York Monte Christi Condy Bristol Scotland John van Boom Batavia Chamber of Zealand Ratisbon Danube Mecklenburg Strelitz Pall Mall Duke of York Charles Pratt Court of Common Pleas Yorke Mr. Pratt Fletcher Neron King’s Counsel Edward Simpson Arches Court of Canterbury Cinque Ports Dover James D’auvergne Thomas Eaton John Bidlake Herring John Earl of Delawar Wilfred Lawson County of Cumberland Temple-bar Ludgate-street Old Bailey Bridewell Newgate St. Paul's Church-Yard Lord North Grosvenor-street Poplar Tho Willis Grosvenor Square Jennens William Jennens A&ton Place Suffolk Onight James Marlboroughtreet Martin Fe’mnight Bartholomew Balderston Norwich Ufes Henry Hardwicke Samuel Hardwicke Briftel

Obituary and notices from a 1761 British issue

A long transcribed page notes deaths and memorials including Sir Crisp Gascoyne in Barking Essex and Mrs Fuller of Tottenham, Joshua Ward interred at Westminster Abbey, and various official courtesies to royal figures. It also covers Parliament business with duties on wine, silk, hops, and vinegar, plus trials, executions, Jamaica rum export, and medical notices urging use of Dr Radcliffe’s Purging Elixir with testimonials from William Funge.

Ted Gancerya AaBey Guidott Barking Essex Crisp Gascoyne Fuller Fulter Tottenham Joshua Ward Camden Westminster Abbey Bath Royal Duke of York Col Norborne Berkley Stoke Bristol Allen Prior Park Dublin Castle House ‘of Peers Commons Great Britain Dublin Hamilton House of Commons Kingdom of Ireland France Spain Portugal China Persia Eat Indies Strabane John M‘naghten Thomas Dunlap Knox Donlap M‘naghten O Irwin William Funge Aylesbury Bucks

Navy Office Notice Seeks Wedges and Provisions for War Efforts

Navy officers announce on December 1761 plans to hire suppliers for Elm Beech and Oak wedges on a standing contract. They will meet on the 1st of next month at eleven in the morning to receive proposals at Portsmouth Yard. Also notices invite sealed tenders for prisoner of war provisions at Fareham for twelve months.

Navy Office Portmouth Majesty's Navy Royal Hospital Haslar A&s Fareham Hamm Goport

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Jamaica King’s Lock Charles Wenman Royal Exchange N.B Wenman Fofua Ward Whitehall Ralph Ward Thomas Ward Ward Dantzick Bank of England
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