To TOM TRUEMAN. Dear Tommy, Tho’ there are two Letters addressed to me, one in the Gazette, and the other in theMercury; yet, from the near Conformity they bear to one another in Sentiment, Reasoning, and Similes, I am apt to conclude they were wrote by the same Hand, Or, if by different Persons, that they…
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Obadiah Plainman Defends the Meaner Sort
To the Author of the Letter in the last Pennsylvania Gazette. SIR, On my first hearing of the Outcry that was raised against the Paragraph, that related to the shutting up of the Concert Room, &c. I immediately called for the Gazette; but, tho’ I read the Article over and over with the greatest Attention, I was not able…
Octuplets
Aug. 5. We hear that the Wife of a Peasant in the District of Boisleduc was brought to Bed of eight Children, seven Girls and one Boy, who were all living. The Pennsylvania Gazette, November 24, 1738
The Passion of Captain Croak
On the 3d Inst. arrived here the Rose, of London, Capt. Croak Commander, from whom we have the following Relation, viz. That on the 17th of June last, being on his Voyage from Newfoundland to this Port, and in the Latitude of 41 Deg. N. and 48 Deg. of Longitude, he espied a Sail that made Signals of Distress;…
Upon the Talents Requisite in an Almanack-Writer
To the Author of the Pennsylvania Gazette. SIR, As I am a great Lover of all Works of Ingenuity, and the Authors of them, so more especially am I a great Reader and Admirer of those Labours of the Learned, called ALMANACKS. As I am a considerable Proficient in this Sort of Learning; and as at this time…