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    1. [KENT-ENG] Captain HARDY and Dartford Powder-mills ( 1787 )
    2. >From World and Fashionable Advertiser ( London, England ), Friday, August 31, 1787; Issue 207. On Sunday last, as Captain HARDY and his lady were going down Shooter's Hill, in a phaeton, the horses took fright, from a pig coming suddenly through the hedge, and ran away with the carriage, which overset about half way down the Hill, and maimed Mrs. HARDY in a shocking manner. Fortunately a returned chaise coming by at the time, took them up and carried them to Dartford, where the lady lies without hopes of recovery. They had only been married three weeks, and were going to spend the autumn at Montpelier, in the South of France. The great Powder-mills of Dartford, being set at work for Government, and the supply of the national ammunition, are in general the fore-runners of war-like operations:- and it is expected some official orders will be sent down there in a few days.

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