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Dutch Ship Sinking and Algerine Captures Reported
Gloucester reports a Dutch ship carrying 600 hogsheads of sugar capsized in the Bristol Channel. Algerine raiders captured the Katherine and Joanna bound Lisbon to Amsterdam, sending the crew to Algiers. A Portugeze warship captured the Algerine cruiser en route to Lisbon. The King sails from Hanover next Thursday. notable local marriages, deaths, and stock quotes accompany the news.
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Gloucester
Henry Holmes
Yarmouth
Isle of Wight
William Perkins
Chertsey
HaBand
Larely
Bristol Channel
Assifo
Katherine
Joanna Cornelius Jans Kuyper
Lisbon
Amsterdam
Algiers
Hanover
Martin Maden
Spencer Cowper
Earl Cowper
Centlivre
William Hamilton
King William
South-Sea Company
Nehemiah Winter
Willme
Mead’s
Oxford-street
Polind-street
Erd
Judith Bleek
India
York Buildings
Royal Exchange
London
South Sea
Gr. Bank
Reyal Exchange Assurance
Kanda Assurance
York