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Robberies and Privateering Actions Reported Along Coast and Trade Routes
News items describe a Jew imprisoned at Newgate for receiving stolen goods, a Hemp Merchant assaulted on Tower Hill, and a Dover privateer returning with a captured French ship from Guinea. Other reports include the Mary and Elizabeth seized near latitude 43 with sugar, and vessels from South Carolina and Holland taken or pursued by privateers, plus a fishing boat ransom and a missing Dover villailing hoy.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Newgate
Rawlins
Nightingale Lane
Tower Hill
Victualling-Office
Dover
Deal
Guinea
Lizard
Mary
Elizabeth
San Domingo
Eagle
Hellings
Bristol
Cork
Jamaica
Warren
Trenchard
South Carolina
St. Augustine
Lydia
Abercromby
Holland
Carolina
Charles
South
Calais
Downs