Valentine's manual of old New York

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Curious Items

From Bradford's New York Gazette, 1737

A''. York, February z8, 6 O'Clock, P. M.—Just now we received
the melancholy account. That this Morning the Wife of Capt.
Hermanns Rutgers of this city, being in perfect Health, eat her
Breakfast as usual, and about nine or ten o'Clock was taken with
a Fit, and dyed about Four in the Afternoon, without speaking
a word, to the great Surprise of her sorrowful Husband, Family
and Friends.—A^ Y. Gazette, March 1, 1737.
 

Last week a man who goes by the names of Patrick Butler,
John Lovell, Luce, and several other Names, was taken up here
for passing counterfeit Pistoles and Dollars, he is a Tinker and
in his Budgett was found Tools and some Mettle for making such
false Money. Being tryed he was convicted, and pursuant to his
Sentence, on Thursday last he stood in the Pillory, on Friday he
was whipt throu the Town and banished out of the County.
Some time ago he stole a Horse and a Mare in Connecticut, they
pursued him to Westchester in this Province, and carried him
back, where according to their Law, they Whipt him, then he
came back to Westchester, and their marries a Wife, and has
another in New England. He meets with a poor Widdow in
New York, who had a suit of her Husbands Cloaths to sell, he
pretends to buy them, and asked leave to put them on to try if
they did not fit him, & then ran away with them. Many other
Thefts and Cheats, it's said, he has committed.—A'^. Y. Gazette,
March 8, 1737.
 

All Sorts of Garden Seeds, lately Imported from England, by
the Governor's Gardiner, Enquire of the said Gardiner in the
Fort, where you may be Supply'd with the said Seeds at a Rea¬
sonable Rate.—Af.  Y. Gazette, March 8, 1737.
 

Publick notice is hereby given. That Nicholas Bayard of the
City of New York has erected a Refining House for Refining all
sorts of Sugar and Sugar Candy, and has procured from Europe
an experienced Artist in that Mystery, At which Refining House
all Persons in City and Country may be supplyed by Whole-sale
and Re-tale with both double and single Refined Loaf-Sugar, as
also Powder and Shop Sugar, and Sugar-Candy, at Reasonable
Rates.—Af. Y. Gazette, August 17, 1730.
 

A Scheme by striking Twenty Thousand Pounds (Paper
Money) to encourage the raising of Hemp, and the Manufact¬
uring of Iron in the Province of New York, with some observa¬
tions, shewing the Necessity and Advantages therefore. Sold by
the Printer hereof.   Price 6d.—N. Y. Gazette, March 29, 1737.

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