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Capture of St Eustatius and Martinique within Barbadoes news
A London Gazette extract reports the loss of St Eustatius and St Martin to French forces by December 1781 as a small French squadron landed at Jenkins's Bay. Hood's ships chase in Chesapeake Bay is described with seventeen ships and two frigates sailing from Sandy Hook. The Nevis letter details elevated prices for flour and potatoes, the fate of Governor Cockburn, and comments on the impact on West Indies negotiations with Holland. Additional notes cover a London Old Bailey burglary trial where Michael Dignan is acquitted after an amusing bed incident.
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Whitehall
Christie
George Germain
Barbadoes
Ranger
St. Eustatius
St. Martin’s
Jenkins’s Bay
Montgomery
Spithead
Sandy Hook
Nymphe
Belliqueux
Royal Oak
Moniarch
Ad.thicl
N.B
Land of
Nevis
Salisbury
Marquis Dé Bouillie
Col. Cockburn
Gibraltar
Cockburn
Martinico
Windward Islands
St. Eustatia
Ireland
Boston
Vaughen
Vaughan
West Indies
Holland
Eustatia
the Common Pleas
Foster
Northington
Hardwicke
Hale
Michael Dignam
Old Bailey
Michael Dignan
Edmund Harris
John Lutas
John
Elizabeth Allen
John Fowler
Tyburn
John Hevey
Bath
Beatty and Co
Great St. Helen’s
Barnard M’carty
B. M’carty
Edward Beauchamp
Holborn
M’carty