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News of Ships and Storms From Jamaica to Whitby
The report notes General Pierce on Barbados dying in September, a New York brigantine captured by a Spanish privateer and pursued by an English ship, and the privateer’s retreat after shore guns. Neptune and Willoughby Bay voyages suffer loss. several ships anchored near Archangel, Martinique, and St Martha seized arms and sailors. A severe August storm devastates St Christopher’s snips. Whitby merchants report heavy damage and 4,000 pounds of losses. Jamaica convoy sightings near Cape Tiberton are confirmed with Defiance and Thfury, plus Falmouth. A stationery poem praises liberty and Britain’s cause to the City Livraison.
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Barbados
Pierce
Jamaica
New-York
Mann
Boar
Neptune
Cliff
Rio ‘de la’ Hacha
St. Martha
William and Mary Yatcht
Holland
Betty
Keble
London
Bar
Archangel
Penelope
Barrold
Cork
Madeira
Antigua
St. Martin’s
St. Christopher’s
Hiscox
Winsler
Main
Ellwood Lloyd
Hastings
George
Sharp
Martinico
Matthews
Liverpool
Willoughby Bay
Barney
Whitby
Yorkshire
London Gazette
Burrith
Blandford
Spithead
Cape Tiberon
Hispaniola
Douglass
Falmouth