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Newspaper
Public Ledger
Location
London, Middlesex, United Kingdom
Date
Feb 09, 1760
Page
3
Navy Office on January 26 1760 announces readiness to treat with bidders for stores for His Majesty's service. Proposals due at eleven o'clock tomorrow, March 5, with several itemized lots scheduled across dates including hemp tar East Country Riga goods and Dantzic plank and package deals from March 7 to 21.
The principal officers and commissioners of his Majesty's Navy invite proposals from capable persons to carry mud out of the Mast Pond and Wet Dock at Deptford Yard. Proposals must be in by 11:00 AM on Friday the 15th, Feb 1760.
At Lloyds Coffee House Lombard Street on February 13 1740 buyers may view the Pluto a 644 ton Boston built fast sailing ship with a bolted bottom and floor head strong enough for 26 twelve pounders and 36 carriage guns. Inventories are aboard and John Hutchinson broker W.B. invites private treaty offers.
A very handsome neat house with three rooms on a floor in good repair recently painted inside from top to bottom. Located at the corner of Pedley Street. Enquire at the house or at the baker's in Pedley Street.
A notice requests any person who can prove the death of Thomas Stevenson, late of Leadenhall Market, fishmonger, to inform W Bristow, publisher. Loyd Stevenson offers a reward for those who help.
Descriptive work detailing Canada, Louisiana, and Caribbean islands with climate, soil, minerals, trade, and languages. Maps and plans by Thomas Jefferys accompany two parts detailing maritime parts of France, invasions, sieges, and sea battles. Part I offers a description of fortified towns and harbours with charts.-Part II to be released weekly, finishing February.
A Royal Licence edition announces a weekly serial set titled A New and complete Collection of Voyages and Travels. It promises three hundred copper plates, maps, views, and harbours, detailing Europe to America with diverse ships, adventures, and cultural notes. Published by J. Coors in London.
A gentleman who recently bought a government life place seeks funds to complete the purchase. Lenders may apply to the newspaper publisher. A 5 percent rate and a handsome gratuity are offered. A trusted person will join as security and some policies may be assigned to the lender.
An experienced horseman introduces a medicine to treat the current distemper and previous outbreaks. The remedy is claimed safe, effective, and capable of curing cold or head and stomach disorders in horses. Sold by multiple London and Newport sellers, seven shillings sixpence per parcel.
Isaac Harman of Southwark recounts a fifteen year battle with painful leg and foot wounds termed joint evil or scrophilous complaints. After failing to find relief, he says medicines from Mrs Carters, opposite Surgeon's Hall, began a cure that gradually healed his left leg then his right foot. He claims full recovery by January 10, and notes he later married and had a healthy daughter. Dated 18 March 1754.
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