Citation - Pennsylvania Gazette-Philadelphia: 1763.08.25

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Index Entry Ball, in Flintshire, given by smelting companies and miners 
Location Flintshire 
Citation
PG-P.763.032
25 Aug 1763:12 (1809)
London.  By the accounts received from our correspondents in
Flintshire, we learn, . . . [12 lines describing peace
celebrations] For which purposes, April 21, a public ball
was given at Holywell by the great rupports . . . [?] of the
county, the smelting companies; and on the 11th of May by
the different mine adventurers.  At each of those balls
there was the most brilliant appearance of ladies and
gentlemen, and the largest and most polite concourse of both
sexes ever seen in these parts; a most excellent band of
music was procured.  The minuets and some country dances
being over, the company (consisting of some hundreds) sat
down to a most elegant supper... . . [10 more lines]. 


Generic Title Pennsylvania Gazette-Philadelphia 
Date 1763.08.25 
Publisher Franklin, B., and D. Hall 
City, State Philadelphia, PA 
Year 1763 
Bibliography B0036545
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