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Gazette Of The United States And Daily Evening Advertiser
Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania
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In Dublin, kidnappers have been abducting women and children for weeks to populate Upper Canada, paying agents for victims. Two vessels wait in the bay. Incensed populace searches and beats suspects; mob rescues 27 children from a cellar. Steps taken to halt this trade.
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A most desperate and alarming species of Kidnapping has for some weeks been practiced in this City, for the avowed purpose, of populating Upper Canada.
There are now two vessels in the bay from that Province, on board of which many women and children have been conveyed. The Agents employed in this business, give four guineas for each child, and twenty for every woman under thirty five. The populace are so much incensed that every woman who is seen with a bundle or a child is searched and examined, and many who have been suspected of having sold their children, beaten, and, in two or three instances dragged through the Liffey.
A few days since, some suspicious looking fellows were watched to a cellar, in Barrack street. The mob collected: and broke open the doors when they found twenty-seven children; who were that night to have embarked for America.
Steps have been taken to prevent this very improper commerce.
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Primary Location
Dublin
Event Date
July 28
Outcome
27 children rescued by mob; steps taken to prevent the kidnapping trade
Event Details
Kidnappers have been abducting women and children in the city for weeks to populate Upper Canada, paying agents 4 guineas per child and 20 per woman under 35. Two vessels from the province wait in the bay with victims aboard. Populace searches and beats suspects, dragging some through the Liffey. Mob breaks into a Barrack Street cellar, finding 27 children set to embark for America that night.