Impact of Soldiering on a New York Wife and Family, 1755
“The Wife of a Labouring Man in Dye-Street, who to all Appearances went to Bed well on Tuesday Night last, was found dead in her Bed the Morning after, occasioned, it’s imagined, from the great Effect the Thoughts of her ...
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, ...
Prostitutes Punished in New York City, 1753
"New York, July 23. Last Thursday [July 19, 1753] 22 Ladies of Pleasure, who were taken out of several Houses of ill Repute in this City, were committed to the Workhouse; and next Day, five of them, who could give ...
New York City in the Winter of 1747
“New-York, February 9. Our kind Readers must now naturally expect a great Dearth of News, and we are therefore quite at a Loss what to give that may be agreeable; we must then beg their Patience when we tell them ...
Firemen at Work in New York Harbor (1759)
“New-York, January 29 [1759]. . . . On Tuesday last, about 10 o'Clock in the Morning, a Fire broke out on the Ship Nancy, Capt. Hamilton, then lying at Cruger's Wharff, deep loaded with Flaxseed, and almost ready to sail ...
Transatlantic Postal Service (1756)
“Philadelphia, February 12, 1756. GENERAL POST OFFICE. PUBLICK NOTICE is hereby given, That the first of the Pacquet Boats provided and established, at Falmouth, In England, for carrying on a regular monthly Correspondence between Great-Britain and his Majesty's several Colonies on ...
New York City: Call for Informers (1753)
"WHEREAS we have great Reason to believe. there has been for some Time lately carried on, a clandestine illegal Trade, by some of the Traders of this Place, to Holland and other Parts: THESE are therefore to give this publick Notice, ...
