Now! Then! 2025! - Yorkshire On This Day

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Foreign ships arrived: February 6: Industry (Captain Klok) and Elizabeth (Simons), both from Rotterdam, with clover feed, geneva [gin], etc.; Einigkeit (Reige) from Rostock with wheat, etc.; Feb. 14: John (Melvill) from Copenhagen; Feb. 15: Vriendschap (Gerts) from Norden. Foreign ships cleared out: Feb. 7: Mercur (Wittkopp), for Hamburg; Feb. 10: Emilia (Grawitz) for Lübeck; Anna Christiana (Wullff) for Danzig [Gdańsk], all with woollen drapery, earthenware, ale, etc.

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Foreign ships arrived.
February 6. Industry, Klok; Elizabeth, Simons, both from Rotterdam, with clover feed, geneva [gin], etc. Einigkeit, Reige, from Rostock with wheat, etc. – 14 John, Melvill, from Copenhagen – 15 Vriendschap, Gerts, from Norden.

Foreign ships cleared out.
February 7. Mercur, Wittkopp, for Hamburg – 10. Emilia, Grawitz, for Lubeck. – Anna Christiana, Wullff, for Dantzig, all with woollen drapery, earthenware, ale, etc.

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