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ANN BLANFORD, WIDOW OF JASPER BLANFORD, deceased, who for many
years kept a common stage wagon from Wokingham to London, humbly requests the
continuance of the favours of her late husband’s customers, (as she is advised with her
friends to carry on the said business for the benefit of herself and her children) which
will be always be gratefully acknowledged, and the business punctually performed.
By their obliged humble servant
ANN BLANFORD.

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Wokingham, June 22 , 1775
TO be LETT and entered on immediately,
Part of a house in Broad-street, late in the occupation of Henry Prior, at the yearly
rent of £2 10s. That part of the Garden lately managed by Richard Deane, for Thomas
Beaver, at £2. Per annum; together £4. 10s. per annum. Also shortly will be Sold or
Let, a New Built House, at the upper end of Rose-street. For particulars, enquire at the
said House.

IRELAND
Dublin, June 21 . Last Friday there was the greatest fall of rain ever known, at
the Curragh of Kildare; and, on Saturday, the greatest hail, by which many lambs,
cows, pidgeons and other birds, were destroyed. The stones measured more than an
inch in diameter, by which many acres of the finest wheat and other corn were lodged
near Mullehedderd, in the county of Dublin, by which one farmer lost more than
£1000.. We also had most violent rains the same evening in Dublin and its
neighbourhood.

LONDON, Thursday, June 29.
From the Pennsylvania Packet of May 9
Willliamsburg, Virginia, April 22.
Last Thursday night, Capt. Collins, with a party of men, belonging to the Magdalen
armed Schooner, by command of Lord Dunmore came to this city from Burwell’s
Ferry, and privately moved out of the magazine, and carried on board the said
Schooner, about 20 barrels of gunpowder belonging to this colony. The inhabitants
were alarmed with the intelligence yesterday morning, the Common Hall assembled,
and the following address was presented to the Governor.
To his Excellency, the right Hon John Earl of Dunmore, his Majesty’s Lieutenant,
Governor General and Commander in Chief in Virginia.
The humble address of the Mayor, Recorder, Aldermen, and common Council of the
city of Williamsburg,
“My Lord, we his Majesty’s dutiful and loyal subjects, the Mayor, Recorder,
Aldermen, and Common Council of the city of Williamsburg, in Common Hall
assembled, humbly beg leave to present to your Excellency, that the inhabitants of this
city were this morning exceedingly alarmed by a report that a large quantity of
gunpowder was in the preceding night, while they were sleeping in their beds,
removed from the public magazine in this city, and conveyed under an escort of
marines, on board one of his Majesty’s armed vessels, lying at a Ferry on James
River.
“We beg leave to represent to your Excellency, that as this magazine was erected at
the public expense of this colony, and appropriated to the safe keeping of such
ammunition as should there be lodged from time to time, for the protection and
security of the country, by arming thereout such of the militia as might be necessary

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