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Privateer actions and Atlantic prizes near the Capes
Reports detail privateer captures and exchanges near the Capes of Virginia including the seizure of a Bermudan sloop and a Snow from Liverpool, with prisoners transferred aboard several vessels. The account notes ships and captains such as James Congar and M Cun, and describes chase and landing at Hampton Road amid further privateer activity and related dispatches from Deal and Gravesend.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jefferys
Glasgow
Ingham
Bermudas
James Congar
Capes
Norfolk
Whitehaven
Rose
London
Rappahannock River
M‘cun
Liverpool
Chace
Hampton Road
Deal
Downs
Gravesend
Hyam
Wond
Irqagg
Happy
Copeland
Virginia
Whiteaven
Dunlope
Alexander
Little Isaac
Coffey
New-York
St. Thomas’s
Greyhound
Falkner
Belfast
Philadelphia
Unson
Young
South Carolina
Lark
Douglass
Ditto
Eagle
Aery
Boston
Gizettes
The
Hague
Baron Stainberg
England
Hanover
Baron Munchausen
Haarlem
Royal Exchange
Prince and Princess of Wales
Prince Christian William of
Saxe-Gotha
Thickness
St. Paul's School
Mercers Company
Charles
Rochester
St. Peter’s Westminster
William Seamer
Grant
King’s College, Westminster
Fido
St. Peter
Westmintster
Dillingham Boswell
Wymondham
Great Wigston
Leicester
Lincoln
Hatheld Chace
York
Nottingham
Hertford
Elizabeth
General Assembly
Hilliard
Rotherhith
James Heywood
Fishstreet Hill
Willes
William York
St. Edmund’s Bury
John Talbot
Efgg
Brecknock
Wales
Lord Talbot
Miss Chetwyn
Lord Chetwyn
Hillenden
Uxbridge
Staffordshire
William Savage
St. Paul’s
Bett
Cheapside
Bridgwater
Hutton Lyster