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Newspaper
Public Ledger
Location
London, Middlesex, United Kingdom
Date
Sep 09, 1760
Page
4
Public notices report ships to be sold or salvaged including the Little William and Charming Nancy, listing cargo and gear by candle. Also ads for vessel freights, hires, appointments, and creditors meetings with various notices and opportunities across a mixed commercial page.
Reading Mercury notices list sales of several properties including a freehold dwelling in Midhurst, a messuage at Whitechurch Hants, an inn with two adjoining tenements at Hook Hants, and a house at Frensham Surrey. Also advertised are lettings for East Hagborne, and positions: a servant to wait at table and a cook-maid at Reading, plus a journeyman brafer at Henley Oxon.
Fragmentary letters from Petersburgh Kingston and Jamaica list ship names and merchants from many places including Jamaica Holland Spain and New York. It details ships crews commerce notes and prices for corn wheat barley oats flour rye malt pease beans and other goods, plus exchange rates and various merchants and captains. The mix of shipping notices and market prices reflects a bustling port trade scene with multiple named persons and firms.
Notice items mention sale and letting of a public house and a ticket porter. An unclear section references a surgeon’s chef and a three year old darkhouse tale with no tire provided. The readable fragments suggest miscellaneous notices rather than a cohesive story.
A fragmented Daily Advertiser page lists auctions for furnishings and trades, shop leases in Clerkenwell Hanover Square Pall Mall and Westminster, houses to let or sale, and various notices. It includes specific items like a Spaniel, apothecary house, bootmaker and vintner premises, plus lost and stolen items and a curate position.
Notice states a messuage with outbuildings and garden in Bristol is to be sold. The advertisement mentions the property details and marks the sale as public. Details appear fragmented but indicate a forthcoming sale date and location in Bristol.
Notice lists multiple properties for sale or let in Norwich including houses in Willow Lane and Tombland, an inn on St. Giles Broad Street, dwellings in St. Margaret’s, Buxton, and Pulham St Mary, plus posts: a Butler in Norwich a Maid Servant in Yarmouth and a Kitchen Gardener in Bury. Also announces creditors and debtors of the late Reverend John Mingay.
Ipswich notices announce sale by auction of freehold and copyhold estates in Danbury Runfold Little Baddow Onehouse Stowmarket Charsfield Hoo and Little Bentley Essex Also a wanted skilled manservant and a debtor notice tied to the late Benjamin Aldice of Hontingfield posed for settlement The items reflect a mix of real estate and employment and debt actions from September 6th.
A fragment from the Bath Advertiser dated September 6 notes two houses in Lisgins to be let or leased. The notice mentions Mead and Byltfot with details likely indicating tenancy or rental terms and names local parties involved in the letting.
Notice states several items including a sold lot of about 390 hogsheads and a sugar auction in Liverpool with New England built ships 120 tons. Properties include a seec ehold estate in Bolton and land in Potton Lancashire. Auctions to be held in Liverpool and surrounding counties with multiple lots.
The notice lists several properties including Mal.l Farm in Little Wigbraham Cambridge. Breehold Farm in Tid Marys Lincoln. Freetie Farm in Wiggon Hall Norfolk. farm in Somertham Colge Huntingdon. a house at St Ives Huntingdon. Glebe Land and Tythes of Barrowden Rutland. an apprentice to a Draper in Donnington Lincolnshire. and creditors of John Simpson late of Bolton Miller.
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