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Island trade conflict and colonial notices wrap Jamaica and New York
Reports from Kingston Hispaniola describe Rhode Island and Connecticut crews seized at the Cayes with an informer blamed for cargo confiscations and potential galley punishment. News from New York and Boston covers embargo threats, fires in Boston, ship movements with French actions in the Caribbean, and local obituaries and civic notices in Halifax and Philadelphia.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kingston
Jamaica
Hispaniola
Rhode Island
Cayes
Rhode
Guarda-Costas
Old France
St Foa NS
Antigua
Joan Thompson
Philadelphia
Tne
Statehouse
Marketsttreet
New-York
Burmuda
Caicos’s
Spain
France
Turks Islands
England
Popple
D’anvers Osborne
New York
New Jersey
Boston
Harvard College
Cambridge
Benjamin Franklin
Bransdon’s
Colchester
Colony
Connecticut
John Bulkley
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