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Wanted partners and marriage prospects in 18th century notices
A series of classified notices seeking a Barbadoes cargo partner with about 800 pounds and a corresponding life partner for a 26-year-old gentleman preferring minds over beauty. Also seeks a suitable 40-year-old woman of the Church of England with independent fortune for an interview, with secrecy guaranteed. Also advertisements offering real estate and various cargoes from Lloyds Coffee House and Garraway’s for sale by candle, listing ships, goods, and cargo from the post de Nant z prize.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Barbadoes
Munday’s
Maiden-Lane
Covent-Garden
Church of England
N.F
Museeum
Great Buffel-street
Bloomsbuy
Lloyd’s
Lombard-Street
Hunter
West India
Virginia
Streights
Union
Gabriel Dorin
Edward Cahill
New-England Coffee -House
N. B
Lloyd's Coffee-toute
Lombard Street
Ulysses
Sauer
Squire Stern
New-England
India
Beil Wharf
Parker
Edward Cahil
New England Coffee -House
Lombar I-Streert
Garraway
Cox's Key
Sething
Aaron Lara
Church-street
Hounsditch
Exchange Alley
Cornhill
Holford and
Maydwell
Cowhill