Taft's Privateer De Lancey Sails In Prize Ships
From New York November 14 plantation news reports Taft returned with the privateer brig De Lancey after capturing two vessels near Crooked Island. One prize, a 300 ton ship with two guns and 16 men, and a second about 400 tons with 22 guns. Both crews aboard loaded with sugar coffee indigo and other goods. Col. Peter Schuyler, once prisoner at Oswego, arrived at Fort Edward after release by the French and escorted by two Indians and a Frenchman.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tes Taft
de Lancey
Thomas Randall
Reuloff Malmstrong
Otober
Crooked Island
St. Domingo
Nantz
Randall
Gailey
Peter Schuyler
New Jersey
Oswego
Quebec
Canada
Fort Edward
County Coroner Contest In Somerton And Shipham
A historic county report recalls the coroner election with Jasper Tylee carrying 837 votes to Capel Tripp’s 7763, a majority of 61. Other obituaries note Morgan Keen Ely’s death at 63 and the Lamb at Bath Easton keeper Fuller’s fatal fall.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Country News
Tuckhefler
Jasper Tylee
Somerton
Capel Tripp
Shipham
Tylee
Tripp
Salisary
Morgan Keen
Ely
Bath
Fuller
Bath Easton
Cotterell
Dutton
Ingliscombe
Birmingham
Bewdley
Severn
Worcester
Newcastle
Charles King
James Christon
Port News Deal Fan Wind Sailed Canterbury Bafs Northward
Deal January reports vessels sailing for Jamaica Naples and Genoa with royal ships Dover Savage Sloop Adventure and outward bound fleet remaining with his Majesty's ships and commanders listed. Wind shifts, names Bergman Smith and Wren cited among captains.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Deal
Fan
Canterbury
Wren
Waterford
His
Conscience as a Scourge and Spanish Seizure Trial
In London letters a discussion on conscience cites Tacitus Seneca and Cicero condemning tyranny and injustice. The text critiques Spanish officials who seized the privateer Antigallican and prize Penthievre, detailing instructions to pursue restitution, protest damages, and seek allies in Madrid and Cadiz while arguing for British rights and neutrality under law.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tacitus
Seneca
Cicero
Soa
John Sherratt
Ferrol
Corunna
Madrid
Foster
Negarre
Falmouth
Benjamin Keenes
Goldsworthy
Elphind
Ferro
Cadiz
Spain
Great Britain
Gibralar
Messrs
Snerrac
Fotler
Mmore
Cireat
Britain
Mankirt
Sophocles
England
Distress Abroad and Liberty Under Attack in England
A historical lament on prices and hardship as the poor face rising provisions while orders from nobility provoke fashion and restraint. Commentary compares parliamentary liberty to licensing clamps and warns against erosion of freedom, noting schemes to import Irish wax and candles and reports on English war ships and privateers in the Atlantic.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
C. Shalk
England
Patrons of Freedom
Company of Stationers
Lisbon
Oporto
Plymouth
Angelique
Rochelle
Louisbourg
Bristol
Earl of Granville
Jersey
America
Ampire
Bayonne
Scilly
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Plantation News
New-York
Edinburgh
Jane
Robert Todd
John Vint
Fitherrow
Scotland
Ireland
Norway
London
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