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 ...
For the Press Gang, All’s Fair in Love and War, 1755
“LONDON. Thursday Night [March 6, 1755] a Press-Gang [of the Royal Navy] went through the Alleys near Moorfields, and having Musick with them, drew out a great Number of People from the Houses, by which Means they picked up ...
Admiral Cotes and British Naval Operations in the Caribbean, 1757
LONDON. “Extracts of two Letters from Vice-Admiral [Thomas] Cotes, Commander in Chief of his Majesty’s Ships at Jamaica, to Mr. [John] Cleveland, dated the 5th and 31st of December, 1757. ‘The 20th of November his majesty’s ship Assistance chaced a ...
Sailors of the Royal Navy Freed from Slavery, 1760
“Ireland. Galway, June 12 [1760]. Monday last arrived in this harbour, the Europe of Guernsey, James Stearn, Master, from London, with Porter, Sugars, Iron and Junk, to Mr. Pierce Joyce of this town. On Friday last, said ...
Officers and Men of HMS Greenwich at Cape François (1757)
[caption id="attachment_821" align="alignnone" width="520" caption="Cape Francois, 1759"][/caption] “Kingston [Jamaica], June 4. Tuesday Evening arrived at Port-Royal, Mr. Perin Trott, late Surgeon’s Mate of the Greenwich, from Cape-Francois. He escaped by breaking the Goal there, on the 18 ult. in Company with ...
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 ...
Conceptualizing the Circulation of Wealth (1756)
"LONDON, Novem. 21 [1756]. It ought to alleviate the Sense of our present Disbursements, that the far greater Part of them, both at Home and Abroad, are spent amongst ourselves. The Demands of the Navy employ and enrich an infinite ...
