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- GLC#
- GLC06670.027-View header record
- Type
- Newspapers
- Date
- 11 August 1743
- Author/Creator
- Franklin, Benjamin, 1706-1790
- Title
- Pennsylvania gazette. [No. 765 (August 11, 1743)]
- Place Written
- Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
- Pagination
- 4 p. : Height: 30.5 cm, Width: 24.5 cm
- Primary time period
- Colonization and Settlement, 1585-1763
- Sub-Era
- Native Americans
Includes international news from various overseas newspapers. Domestic news and classified ads inhabit pages 2 through 4. News of a young woman convicted of wearing men's clothing and passing herself as a sailor. Adds that she was a dextrous seafarer and was generally the first one aloft. Section reserved for announcing the indentured servitude of residents and the return of runaway slaves.
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