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British Packet Brings French Mail and Sea News
A British packet arrives with French mail. Reports of seas, ship captures near Bermuda by a Spanish vessel of 16 guns. Robbery and plunder described, including Capt. Muttlebury and crew, with their vessel released after six days. Additional notices detail clashes with Indians off Penobscot and naval actions in New England.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mary
Enoch Muttlebury
New England
Bermudas
Capes
Virginia
Flower
Penselvania
West-India Islands
Muttlebury
Portsmouth
New-England
Geo. Jacson
Silvester Lakeman
Ipswich