Page 184 - British Post Office Notices 1666 to 1799

1780-1789

The Packet Postage of One Shilling for each Single Letter, and so in Proportion for Double, Treble and Ounce Letters
and Packets, must be paid upon their Delivery into this Office; and the Inland Postage to London from all Parts of Great
Britain and Ireland must also be paid over and above the said Rates, without which they cannot be forwarded.
ANTH. TODD, Sec .

.. 8 7 0 7 NEWS (General Post-Office, September 18, 1787)

FROM the first Wednesday in March to the first Wednesday in October inclusive, each Packet going to New York is to
touch at Halifax, and stay there Two Days, and no longer, in her Way to New York; and each Packet coming from New
York, in the same Months, is to touch at Halifax, and stay there Two Days, and no longer, in her Way to England.
ANTHONY TODD, Sec .

.. 8 7 0 8 NEWS (General Post-Office, October 24, 1787)

A Monthly Post is established from Halifax to Quebec, through the Province of New Brunswick, and from Quebec to
Halifax by the same Route.
ANTH. TODD, Secretary.

··8 7 0 9 NEWS (General Post-Office, October 27, 1787)

A Mail will be made up at this Office on the First and Third Wednesday of every Month for the West Indies.
Their Course will be for Barbadoes, St. Vincent, Grenada, and from thence to St. Kitt's and Jamaica, where, instead of
being detained to receive the Answers to all their Letters from the internal Parts of the Island, they will stay but Forty-eight
Hours, and return by the Windward Passage to England; and the next Packet will take up the Answers to the Letters
delivered by the first.
The Packets will leave at Barbadoes all Letters for the Leeward Islands, which will be conveyed by a Brig to Dominica,
Antigua, and St. Kitt's, where they will be delivered to the English Packets upon their Arrival from Grenada, and forwarded
with the rest to Jamaica and England.
This is a temporary Plan, 'till another upon larger Scale can be carried into Effect.
ANTH. TODD, Sec.

··8 710 NEWS (General Post-Office, November 2, 1787)

A Mail will be made up at this Office on Wednesday next for Nova Scotia, New Brunswick and Quebec.
The Packet intended for New York will proceed first to Halifax, and then to New York; but will not return by Halifax
to England.
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ANTH. TODD, Sec.

·· 8 7 1 1 NEWS (General P ost-0 ffice, N ovem her 17, 1787)

A Mail will be made up at this Office for the West Indies on Wednesday next the 21st Instant, being the Third
Wednesday in the Month.
The Course of the Packets will be for Barbadoes, St.. Vincent's, Grenada, St. Kitt's and Jamaica, where, instead of
being detained to receive Answers to the Letters from the internal Parts of the Island, they will stay but Forty-eight Hours,
and then return by the Windward Passage to England, and the next Packet will take up the Answers to the Letters delivered
by the First. _.
All Letters for the Leeward Islands will be conveyed from Barbadoes by a Brig to Dominica and Antigua, at each of
Which Island she will take up Letters for Great Britain and Ireland, as well as for Jamaica, and proceed to St. Kitt's, where
she will deliver them to be forwarded by the English Packet, upon her Arrival from Grenada.

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