British Military to Quell Smuggling Along English and Scottish Coasts, 1717
[London, September 7, 1717] Upon a Complaint from the Officers of the Customs in several Parts of the Kingdom, that the Smugglers are now grown so very Numerous and Insolent, in Defiance of the Officers of the Customs, they ...
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 ...
