During the Session of the Presbyterian Synod, which began on the 28th of the last Month, and continued to the third of this Instant, there were no less than 14 Sermons preached on Society-Hill to large Audiences, by the Rev. Messrs. the Tennents, Mr.Davenport, Mr. Rowland and Mr. Blair, besides what were deliver’d at thePresbyterian and Baptist Meetings, and Expoundings and Exhortations in…
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Obadiah Plainman to Tom Trueman
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…
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;…