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Coins for America... The slave trade... Indian troubles at Fort Pitt & elsewhere...
Item # 697983
August 04, 1764
THE LONDON CHRONICLE, England, Aug. 4, 1764 Page 5 begins with a report from: "Williamsburgh in Virginia" "The Indians have done a great deal of mischief on Patterson's Creek. One of the garrisons had four guns fired at him...How many people they have killed, I have not yet learned. From Fort Pitt we are informed that a soldier...was fired at as he was standing century at the point of Grant's Hill; he was mortally wounded; he made his escape but died in about two hours...".
Then an: "Extract of a Letter from Virginia which reports of additional troubles with the Indians in Augusta County, with mention of Fort Dinwiddie. And then: "A letter from Carlisle says that the enemy...being closely pursued, killed their prisoners on the flight...".
Page 7 has reports from Jamaica & the West Indies with mention: "The Bristol and Liverpool ships now fitting out for the African trade, are furnished with a new kind of close quarters which will render the crews less liable to be surprised by negroe insurrections...". And the back page has a monetary item: "A vast number of quarter-guineas are now sending abroad to the American settlements, which, it is thought, will occasion a farther coinage of these pieces so necessary for change."
Eight pages, 8 1/4 by 11 1/4 inches, a 1 by 2 1/2 inch piece was clipped from the bottom of the front leaf but replaced in photocopy so all text is intact, not affecting any mentioned reports, otherwise good condition.
Category: The 1600's and 1700's
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