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Death of the Duke and Sugar Harvest Woes Across Barbadoes
Reports state the death of the Duke's master and the quick dispatch of news to the King. Barbadoes and Leeward Islands suffer a severe sugar drought with vast cane fires preventing a fourth part of last year’s output, while Dutch prints indicate 3000 hogsheads of sugar arriving in Holland and Hamburg from St Domingo.
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Tarif
Henry Vane Elg
M.hom
Duke of
Wolfenbuttte
Barbadoes
Leeward
A. Diaughe
Holland
Hamburgh
St. Domingo
Hispaniola
Potter
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