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News from London and New England in April 1744
The page relays imported letters and dispatches from London, Philadelphia, New York, and Boston. Reports include Spanish privateers capturing vessels near Barbadoes and St. Christopher’s, ships driven ashore near Bermudas, Indigo cargo from Havana seized, and military notes from Gibraltar with siege updates and the Duke of Wharton at Queen Anne Fort. Sailing incidents around Cape May, St. Antonio Cape, and Boston’s coastal weather are covered, alongside storms near Marblehead and Boston harbor damage from a gale and a storm surge.
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Surinam
Newton
Barbadoe
Sierra Leona
N. E
Anguilla
Cape Anne
John Parkman
Philadelphia
Sakki
Ferseys
Jones
Cape May
York
James Flucker
Samaria
St. Christopher’s
New York
Amboy
Guttridge
Nevis
Coccoa
Bic
Havana
Old Spain
Bermudas
Poffeshon
St. Domingo
Santa Cruz
Gibraltar
Queen Anne
Count de Las Porres
Duke of Wharton
James the Third
Marblehead
S. E
Cheever
Bofton
New London
Jamaica