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- GLC#
- GLC06670.060-View header record
- Type
- Newspapers
- Date
- 23 May 1745
- Author/Creator
- Franklin, Benjamin, 1706-1790
- Title
- Pennsylvania gazette. [No. 858 (May 23, 1745)]
- Place Written
- Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
- Pagination
- 4 p. : Height: 30.5 cm, Width: 21.5 cm
- Primary time period
- Colonization and Settlement, 1585-1763
- Sub-Era
- Native Americans
Includes international news from various overseas newspapers. Discussion of the French troops at Frankfort. Printed speech by King George II to both houses of Parliament regarding duties on alcohol, current military support for Hungary, and a new treaty with Poland. Domestic news and classified ads inhabit pages 2 through 4. Reports of French and Indian plotting against Annapolis Royal in Nova Scotia. Section reserved for announcing the indentured servitude of residents, the return of runaway slaves, and departing ships.
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