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The Virginia Gazette
Richmond, Williamsburg, Richmond County, Virginia
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Prussian King orders detailed inquiries into cities, towns, manufactures, commerce, population registers, and fortifications in Polish Prussia, appointing commissaries to conduct surveys and open registers for inhabitants.
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"His Prussian Majesty has given Orders that a very particular Inquiry shall be made into the Cities, Towns, &c. in Polish Prussia, their Manufactures, Commerce, &c. and has appointed Commissaries to make those Inquiries, who are to open Registers in every City and large Town for all the Inhabitants to give in their Names, Avocations, and Trades, so that their Number may be ascertained. The Fortifications of all the Cities are likewise ordered to be strictly surveyed, and the Returns made with all possible Dispatch."
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Polish Prussia
Event Date
January 1
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His Prussian Majesty has given orders for a particular inquiry into cities, towns, manufactures, and commerce in Polish Prussia. Commissaries are appointed to make these inquiries, opening registers in every city and large town for inhabitants to provide their names, avocations, and trades to ascertain their number. Fortifications of all cities are to be strictly surveyed, with returns made with all possible dispatch.