Navy Office Announces Sea Officer Half Pay Distribution
June 18 1760 Navy Office informs sea officers that half pay for January 1759 to June 30 1759 will be paid at the Treasurer of the Navy Office Broad Street starting Monday the 7th of next month at ten in the morning. Attendees must bring affidavits and certificates proving absence of public employment and compliance with Test and Oath requirements. attorneys may present documents for clients.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Navy-Office
His Majesty
Navy
Broad-street
Mitre
Plymouth
Hammore
Soleil
Montreal
King’s Stores
Mouse
Snow Paix
Portugal
St. Maloes
Guinea
Edward Boscawen
Lloyd’s Coffee-house
London
Richard Meyler
Bristol
George Drinkwater
Liverpool
Francis Fanning
Subscriptions for Boston Fire Sufferers Noted in Advertisements
June 26 1760 update lists donations to aid Boston fire victims. Contributions from William Sitwell Nath Paice Thomas Willing Io Francis Plummer Thomas Nixon Edward Cahill Robert Brownall Tyrrell Brigen and Waller Akerman and Scrivner Richard Jackson John Jones Sapendon and Hanbey Samuel and John Horne appear. Benefactions collected by Honeywood and Co Birchin Lane Walpole and Co Lombard Street James Coutts Strand and Drummond and Co Charing Cross.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
William Sitwell
Nath
Paice
Eta
Thomas Willing
Francis Plummer
Thomas Nixon
William Hodshon
Edward Cahill
Robert Brownall
Tyrrell
D.V.D. H
Ioro
Brigen and Waller
Akerman and Scrivner
Richard Jackson
John Jones
Sapendon and
Hanbey
Samuel
John Horne
Honeywood and Co
Birchin Lane
Walpole and Co
Lombard-street
James Coutts
The
Strand
Drummond and Co
Charing Cross
Lost Parcel with Navy and Exchequer Bills Rewarded
Lost on Saturday in 1760 between Cornhill and Westminster Abbey a parcel tied with red tape containing a Navy Bill and Victualling Bill numbers with dates from 1759, twenty three Exchequer Bills bearing 4 percent interest, and a letter. If found deliver to Ayton and Berrow at Nairn's Optician opposite the Change in Cornhill for a Twenty Guinea reward. The items are not negotiable and only the owner may claim.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cornhill
Westminster Abbey
Messrs
Ayton and Berrow
Public notice of cancer remedy and plasters in London circles
An 18th century advertisement touts a plaster and tincture for cancers and white swellings, claiming thirty years of success. It lists sales outlets in Fleet Street and Charing Cross, promises breast preservation after cancer, uses for lingering breast issues after childbirth, and offers accompanying medical drops for coughs and consumption with directions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Burd
Temple-Exchange
Temple Gate
Fleet Street
Bowen
Royal Exchange
Legg
Admiralty
Charing-cross
London
Grant
Reading
Berkshire
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Magdalen House
Prescot-Street
Goodman’s Fields
A. Winterbottom
Boston
New-England
Mr. Bunn
Green Walk
Southwark
N. B
Christ Church
Surry
Lombard
Portsmouth
John Hutchinson
Lloyd’s Coffee House
Welwa
Naan
Mercure
Caveass
Charles Inglis
Portsmouth Harbour
Lloyd’s
Lombard- Street
Unicorn
Batson’s
Henry Duns
John Tivitoe
Angel-Court
Throgmorton -Street
Lloyd's Coffee-house
Streec
West-India
Niger
John Bentinck
Bsg
Peter Mauger
Abchurch Lane
Paris
Ftcc
Adventure
Greyhound
Had House
Francis Fad
Lloyd's Coffee
Corn-Exchange
Mark-Lane
Benj. Vaughan and Son
Garraway
Exchange- Alley
C. Ng
Royal
Benj. Vaughan
John Bar
I-Mall
BK Carwron
Uw Waupyrsa
al Ont
Corn - Exchange
Peter Fearon
Nicholas-lane
Dyche
Markham
Fenning
T. Dyke
Dyne
Crowder
Lomdon Bridge
Lloyd’s Coffee
Philip Giffard
Chamberlaine’s Wharf
Abchurch-lane
North-Yarmouth
Cadiz
Haymarket
Howel Rice
Swanzey
Tristram Shandy
Tom Fool
ST. Waller
Fetter Lane
Christian’s
Chrysostom
Constantinople
Pope Innocent
Peru
Se's
Pliny
Trajan
St. John
Dr. Bray
W. Dodd
M.A
Lowth
David
Saul
Jonathan
F. Fawkes
Mr. Woty
J. Coote
Paternoster Row
Great Britain and Ireland
James
St. AntHony’s
J. Newbery
Bible and Sun
St. Paul’s Church-yard
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