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Tobacco plants uprooted across colonies amid protests and raids
A letter from Calvert County Maryland reports authorities and planters burning and cutting up tobacco plants across several plantations to disrupt growing tobacco. Ringleaders offered rewards. workers and companions join in nocturnal destruction. Additional notes describe ship seizures and privateering disputes near Saint Jago de Cuba.
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N. B
Keate
Patuxent River
Maryland
Calvert County
Virginia
St. Jago de Ciba
Hese
Nick Wajerly