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Newspaper

Public Ledger

Location

London, Middlesex, United Kingdom

Date

Dec 30, 1760

Page

2

War news and naval movements from the Atlantic to Jamaica

Reports detail regiments and leaders in Paderborn, deliveries of provisions to Brunswick, prizes and convoys in the English Channel and Quiberon Bay, arrivals at Jamaica, and British naval orders. Trade, transfers, and sightings at Plymouth Cowes and London markets accompany tidings of Lusitanian, Virginia and Newfoundland voyages and the purchase of 1800 cavalry remounts.

Prince of Orange Pacquet Sluy's Flanders Dunkirk Jenny Becket Lancaster Jamaica Prince William, Barnard London Quebec Condre Amy Puddeccombe Newfoundland Oporto Gloucester Condon Bristol Lisbon Alexander Richards Ae Downs Virginia Walker Gottland Plymouth Peace Cowes Fanny Montreal Rochelle Warden Ledge Needles Jonge Arnoldus Viffer Amsterdam Barcelona Rotterdam Leghorn Bootle Dawson Liverpool Falkoner Rachael Rogers Appleton Wallace Louisbourgh Dougherty Philadelphia Speedwell Barnard Adams Gibraltar Peter Curwan Benson Maryland Whitehaven Jane Ross Berwick Gottenburg Galbreath Clyde Trotman Cuffley Stangatea Creek Nancy Mitchell N.S. Do Pilar Rereira Cork St. Eustatia West India Islands William Wilcox Dolly Polly Willson North Carolina Fly Ashburn Billa Kayton South Carolina New York Alice Murdock Ipango Johnson Melanda Hle Rumbold John’ Sacheveril Loango Admiralty Flushing England Helvoetfluys Yarmouth Roads Orfordness Harwich Helvoetflugs Dover Germany Aberdeen Earl of Litherland Highland Royal Palace Pall-mall St. James’s Cleveland Row Cleveland Court Green Park General Amherst Albany

Melancholy notes from 1760 on deaths and maritime moves

Extra and letters from Barnstaple and Norwich recount a diver’s death by lunacy verdict, a drowned solicitor’s tale, and a journeyman butcher's death. Northampton troops move, and regiments quarter in Leeds, Wakefield, Yorks. Philadelphia reports Roger’s Rangers to Detroit, with Monckton dispatches. Prince George fortifications and Indian distress noted.

East Indies Portugal Spain Hawke George Kent Prince Henry East India Company Gravesend Downs Epping Forest Fleet-street Salisbury Court John Downey Cirencester Viscount Downe Kingdom of Ireland Salisbury Ogle Archdeacon Head Arnold Edward Arnold Duke of Rutland’s Green Cloth Hutton Holborn Williams and Horne Newport Market Drake and Turner Southwark London Browne Walter Blackett Bath William Courtney Devon Chester John Townshend Hem Hawk Holt Denbighshire Nancy:Bennet Henry Bennet City of Ellis Cunliffe Perlia ‘Ment Liverpool Mills Molly Bennet Philip Kemsey Ryley Isac Sprate Norwich Tullideph-hall Scotland Major Leslie Earl of Leven Tullideph Walter Tullideph Batten Rotherhithe Ralph Shirley Peasmore Berks Anne Smith Henbury Gloucestershire Escutt Budgerow Hlington Featherstone Mr. Lavett Duke of Cumberland Mr. Young Blue Coat School Westminster Cloysters St. Bartholomew’s Hospital Mr. Nelson Wapping Norway Litterer Exeter Reed Torney Chemney St. John Sepulchre Northampton Duke of Richmond Leeds Wakefield Yorkshire Lantation News Philadelphia Pittsburgh Rogers Brehem Montreal Monckton Presque Island Royal American Regiment Donald Campbell Roger’s Lake Erie Detroit Michillimachinac Canada Charles Town South Carolina Major Thomson Rangers Fort Prince George New York Bermuda Virginia Kanawa Montgomery Col. Byrd Col. Montgomery Fort Loudoun Kidd Quebec Lord Colville Halifax Sutherland Commodore Swanton England Old France Cork King’s

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