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Newspaper
Public Ledger
Location
London, Middlesex, United Kingdom
Date
Jan 22, 1761
Page
4
The issue compiles public notices and advertisements from London papers, including sales of French prize skins, ships and cargos, wanted trades, job listings, and property lettings. It lists merchants, navy contracts, and warnings about indecent ads, with stock prices and exchange rates for January 21.
The Daily Gazette dated January 21 records a lost letter addressed to a London merchant John Grattan at a coffee house near the Royal Exchange and notes a housekeeper to a gentleman. It also mentions owners of cargo parcels aboard ships from Rotterdam and Campvere receiving notices.
A dated Broadside lists auctions and sales including a four wheel chaise, a chariot, pictures, household furniture of John Pepys, a freehold house in Bearbinder lane, a house with wine vaults in Finch lane, various trades premises in London, and multiple properties for sale or to let. It also notes lost items such as a small black dog, a gold watch, a sable tip, a liver colored pointer, a red spaniel, and a small anchor with cable.
The Gentlemen Clergy and Freeholders of Hertford County invite a meeting on January 21 to discuss county affairs and governance. The notice requests حضور and participation from local officials and residents.
In the Mewcaltle Journal dated January 17 a variety of properties and assets are offered or advertised for let or sale. Listings include a freehold messuage at Hartlepool, the ship Providence burdened by coal keels, a lease of a farm near Hownam, timber and oak trees at Shilford, several Newcastle properties in Elswick Hanover Square and The Close, plus a mill and a dwelling with offices near Newcastle and Croxdale. Also advertised: a farm or land near Kirknewton and a water mill at Pandon Dean with a request for a dwelling house with offices and eight to ten acres within ten miles of Newcastle upon Tyne.
Notice proclaims parcels for sale and lease in Mewehle Concaut area. Listings include house sites near a lighthouse, a large brick house in Pandea, a dwelling at North Shields with plantation and coal burdens, a house on Ferry-all, and additional houses on the Bate-th.
Notice is given that several lands and tenements are to be sold at Kyebott in Devon. The details appear incomplete but indicate a public sale of properties.
A fragmented OCR of names and titles appears, listing numerous individuals with varied prefixes and roles. The garbled text includes French and English forms, titles like Mr Mrs Rev and multiple surnames, suggesting a correspondence or directory fragment without a clear narrative or event.
A garbled OCR passage lists numerous names and titles such as John Battle Curtiss Robinson Rebecca Holness Rogers Thomas Taylor Francis Megee Bryan and others. The lack of context or coherent events makes it unclear what action or report connects these individuals.
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