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Long Naval Dispatches From Jamaica and York Era
Reports detail Jamaica transport actions including Captains Whiteing and Van Cekar, and Chatham's Barbadoes voyage. It notes Mars Byng’s return, the India Company directors, and a notable duel of ships off Cape Spartel between English vessels and French ships, with Captain Balchen and the Folkstone involved. It mentions London court notices, a will ritual at Windsor, and local Middlesex actions against disorderly houses.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Carthagena
Douglas
Lowther
Ravinton
Whiteing
Dorsetshire
van Cekar
Dlone
Jamaica
Chatham
Strange
Barbadoes
Guiney
England
Mars. Byng
James Skeene
Col. Cotterell
Maines
America
John Croshaw
Surrey
Petersourgh
Rutha
Jmlarape
Count de Thoms
Leyden
Scerling
The
India Company
Harrington
Jenkins
St. Helena
Bombay
China
Lowe
Walpole
Bodham
York
Lamprigh
Bradley
Leigh
Hatnex
Troman Hall
Boeadetere
Seignorat
Ely
Peter Seignorer
Greenwich
William Beere Williams
George Ing
Southwark
Saindow
Windsor
Portsmouth
Church of England
County of Middlesex
Whitechapel Church
Crispin-street
Spittlefields
John Holt
Bromley
Middlesex
Hicks’s Hall
Tyburn
Rachael Hind
New-Prison
Col. de Veil
Whitehorse Alley
Brideil’s Alley
Ken Street
Col
de Veil
Mary Page
Elizabeth Jackson
Farol
Newgate
Mont. Castanier
French East India Company
Gottenburgh
Camaries
Lord Forrester
Biddeford
Cadiz
Dover
Swift
Dunkirk
Calais
Holland
St. Sebastian
New-England
Sarah
St. Augustine
Madeira
Jones
Dumeresque
Eagle
New-Ed
New- England
Barnet
Hitc Dack
Cape Sparkl
Chace
Suntee
Cape Spartel
Feversham
Balchen
Meg
Balehea
Spain
Uri
Jugn
Balcher
Balchen Enga