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Capture of the sloop Kinnicutt by a Spanish privateer
Providence June 18 reports Joseph Welcott aboard the sloop Kinnicutt from Surinam to this port. The privateer took Hopkins and nine crew, sailed to Trinidad, planned further capture before landing the Englishmen who were later set ashore with help from natives. cargo later sold at St. Eułasrius. Hopkins and Mr. Bowen survived, townsfolk relieved by their return. Plymouth and London items follow with assorted weather, naval, and crime notes from the era.
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America
Providence
Joseph Welcott
Mariner
Kinnicutt
George Hopkins
New- London
Christopher’s
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Surinam
Hopkins
Trinidad
Spain
Fomall
Tooty
Eithout
Dhorg
Aga
St. Euflarius
Oliver Bowen
St. Kitt’s