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j {June 4 Pa 
PROVINCIAL OCCURRENCES, 
WITH ati rHE MARRIAGES anp DEATHS ; 
Arranged geographically, or in the Order of the Counties, from North to South. 
_* 2" Communications for this Department of the Monthly Magazine properly Authen- 
ticated and fent free of Pofiage are always thankfully received. Thofe are more parti-. 
cularly acceptable which defcribe the Progrefs of Local Improvements of any kind, or 
which contain Biographical Anecdotes or Faé?s relative to Eminent or Remarkable 
Characters recently deceafed. 
NORTHUMBERLAND AND DURHAM. _ 
S two fawyers, in the boat-building yard of 
_ Mr. Mafterman, on the South fhore, New- 
caftle, were lately fawing a well-grown elm- 
tree, they were fuddenly ftopped in the mid- 
dle of their work by a harder body than the 
wood, which, on further examination, proved 
to be a horfe-fhoe, in good prefervation, and 
which, there is no reafon to doubt, had been 
there fince the growth of the timber. It was 
found in the very core of the tree, where a_ 
fine impreffion of the fhoe was made on the 
furrounding furface, 
peared to have been fuftained by the timber. 
Married } At St. Andrew’s Auckiand, 
Mr, William Atkinfon, of Bifhop Auckland, 
grocer, to Mifs Brown, 
At Ovingham, Mr, Ifaiah Hall, of Winla- 
ton, to Mifs Snowball, daughter of Mr. Rob. 
5S. of Hedley. ‘ ; 
At Newcaftle, Mr. Thomas Robfon, to 
Mifs Mary Harrifon. 
At Jarrow, Lieut. Kipping, of the Suffex 
Militia, to Mifs E. Coppin, youngeft daughter 
of the late William C. efg. of North Shields. 
At Berwick, Mr. Hare, of Marledewn, to 
Mifs Paxton, of Berwick. 
At Allandale Town, Capt. William Story, 
of the Merchants’ Packet of Newcaftie, to 
Mifs Wigham, of Hindlewray. 
At Felton, the Rev. Angus Hulton, to 
Mrs. Walker. 
At Sunderland, Mr. William Robinfon, of 
Norton near Stockton, to Mifs Mary Vickars, 
daughter of Mr. V. gardener.—Mr. Natha- 
niel Mitchell, mariner, to Mifs Scott. 
Died.} At Newcaftle, Mr. John Dunn, 
butcher, 39.—Mifs Grace Robfon, youngeft 
daughter of Mr. Thomas R.—Mr. Jofeph 
Bell, painter.—Mr, W. Croft, fon of Mr. 2 
publican, 20.—Mrs. Mary Gibfon of the Hare 
and Hounds.—Suddenly Mr. Jofeph Ayton, 
jen. grocer. He dropped down in his fhop, 
and infantly expired.—Mrs.' Elizabeth Ste- 
Phenfon, 76.—Mr. Robert Slotter, publican. 
-—Mr. Charles Richardfon, late of the Ma- 
- fon’s Arms.—Mrs. Doeg, wife of Mr. Alex- 
ander D. fhip-builder.—Mr. John Wood, 
joiner and.cakinet-maker. He was allowed 
to be the moft ingenious a:tift in his line that 
the town sould ever boaftof. From his ex- 
tenfive bufinefs he might have acquired a for- 
tune, but better verfed in fcience than men, 
he was to the-defigning an eafy prey, Seve- 
No vifible injury ap- — 
ral matter-joiners in the town generoufly fub- 
{cribed towards giving him a genteef funeral. 
—Capt. W. Skipfey, 31.—Mr. Montgomery 
Bofwell, furgeon in the royal navy. 
At Corridge Houfe, John Robfon, efq. 
At Durham, Mifs Maria Manners, daugh- 
ter of Mr. J. M. 17.—Elizabeth Harrifon, 
better known in that city by the appellation 
of Potatoe Bet, 88.—M-s. Robfon, widow of 
Mr. John R. 65.—Mrs. Ifabella Atkinfon, 
95-—Mr. John Lambert, 62 -—~Mifs Eliz. 
Rebinfon, 21. ; 
At Alnwick, Mr. Robert Johnfon, for- 
merly of the Nag’s Head Inn there, 70. 
At Horncliff Houfe, near Berwick, Mrs. 
Edmefton, wife of Captain E. paymafter of 
the sft Royal Veteran battalion. 
At Bifhop Auckland, Peter Bowlby, L.L.D. 
regifter to the dean and chapter of Durham, 
77- 
At Hexham, Mr. Matthew Fairlambh, inn- 
keeper, 80.—Mrs. Bell, wife of Mr. Row- 
land B. ; ; 
At Out Newton, Mrs. Jackfon, who has 
been thrice married in the laft three years 
and has left her fixth hufband to bewail her 
lofs. 
At Berwick, Mrs, Rudd, 67.—Mrs. DBo- 
rothy Sanderfon, widow of Mr. Michael S. 
late of the excife. 
At Stockton-upon-Tees, Mr. John Atkin- 
fon, bookfeller and printer. 
At Allenheads, the Rev. Jofeph Carr, — 
M.A.-58. * ; 
At Sunderland, Mrs. Newton, wife of Mr. 
Robert N. thip-owner, 69.—In great diftrefs, 
the Rev. Thomas Collingwood, 36.—Mrs. 
Irvine, widow of the late Mr. I. 72.—Ed- 
ward Ufher, 30 years bellman of this ~- 
place. 
At Brunton-Houfe, aged.41, Frances, the 
wife of John Dawfon, efg. To do adequate 
juftice to the charaéter of this moft excellent 
lady, would be a hard tafk indeed; fuffice it 
to fay, that without either fee of reward, fhe 
was the friend and benefacter of all: with 
her advice the befriended the young and in- 
experienced—-with her purie the poor, infirm, 
and friendleis—-and by her chirurgical and 
medical fkill, the eafed the pains of the lame 
and difeafed ; with fuch objets as thefe was 
the houfe of Mrs. Dawfon crowded every day, 
and fhe had the greateft pleafure in adminif- 
tering to their different necefiities. > 
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