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Monthly Archives: October 2016

Horse

Saturday, October 8, 2016
Published in the The New York Gazette, New York, New York on Tuesday, December 19, 1730

Philadelphia, December 1, 1730. Last Sunday one John Long, a Servant to Mr. Jones of Kingses, attempting to lead a mare over a small bridge over Cobb’s Creek, the Mare’s Fore Feet slipping, then with a violent Spring endeavouring to recover herself, struck him in the stomach with her head, threw him off the bridge, […]

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Oxen and Hogs.

Saturday, October 8, 2016
Published in the The New York Gazette, New York, New York on Thursday, July 28, 1729

Petersburg, Russia April 14, 1729. The fleet which is leaving, will consist of 47 Man of War of the line, of 24 Frigates, and a large number of Gallies on board of which Vessels 14,000 Seamen, are to embark. This formidable Fleet is to be victualled with 3500 Oxen and 600 Hogs.

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Cats

Saturday, October 8, 2016
Published in the The New York Gazette, New York, New York on Wednesday, February 6, 1732

About a Fortnight ago Mr. Evett, a Hatter at Lambeth, sitting in the Parlor, a strange little Cat came in, and running up his leg, bit his Finger, which immediately bled very much. He worried that the Cat was mad, for the pain struck to his heart, and he continued out of order till Saturday, […]

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Friday, October 7, 2016
Published in the The New York Gazette, New York, New York on Thursday, September 4, 1732

New England, August 3, 1732. A very strange Creature has been lately seen among our people who have seen it and were afraid. It appeared about the size of a horse with very long tail; it met with a large Ox and ran to it and began to eat the Ox on the shoulder, which […]

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Alligators

Friday, October 7, 2016
Published in the The New York Gazette, New York, New York on Thursday, September 18, 1732

Charlestown, South Carolina July 15, 1732. On the 29th, a white Servant Man belonging to Mr. Robert Cinclair wilfully drowned himself in Black River, he had been in the Province but a few weeks, and it is imagined that his being put to work, which was what, it seems, he had not been used to, […]

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Rats and mice.

Friday, October 7, 2016
Published in the The New York Gazette, New York, New York on Thursday, March 27, 1732

By a letter from Martha’s Vinyard of the 23rd of December, 1731, we have an Account, that a ship is arrived there, in 14 Weeks from Rotterdam where they took on board 150 People for Pennsylvania, and that above One Hundred of them died at sea through Hunger and Cold. That a Rat was sold […]

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