Tragedy at a Scottish Public House, 1755
“London. The following melancholy Affair happened lately at Annan* in Scotland. A Party of Soldiers having gone to assist the Custom-house Officers in making a Seizure of some prohibited Goods that they had been informed were in that ...
Desperate Attempt to Flee from Slavery, 1755
“PLANTATION NEWS. New-York, Nov. 18. Yesterday arrived here Capt. Leacraft, in eight Days from Bermudas, and says, that, just before he sailed, the Schooner Ruby, John Seymour, late Master, arrived there from this Port; the People whereof reported, ...
New York Fire Takes the Life of Mother and Four Children, 1757
“NEW-YORK, February 21 [1757]. On Wednesday Morning last [February 16], about 4 o’Clock, a dreadful Fire broke out in Dock-Street, in this City, in the Dwelling-House of Mr. Thomas Duncan, Merchant, which in a little Time entirely consumed the same, ...
Tragedy in a Connecticut Town (1759)
“New London, June 1. On Tuesday the 23d Ult. Was found in a Swamp, in the Parish of Pettapauge, in Say-Brook, an Infant buried under a Stone, being most inhumanly murdered; Upon which a Jury of Inquest was impannel’d by ...
