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LONDON LETTER: Privateers, marriages, and port news across towns
A long London letter reports on Captain Londons French privateers sent to Boston after raiding Marigalant, a marriage in Moyally and Crofton, and a surge of September news from Newcastle to Bath. It details military draughts to Ireland for America, charitable levies, ship arrivals, prices, executions, militia acts, and port movements. It also includes a lengthy eyewitness account of atrocities suffered by English prisoners in Dinain by a French privateer crew.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Antigua
Marigalant
Boston
Edmond Armstrong
Moyally
King’s County
Ely
Miss Crofton
Thomas Crofton
Calvin, Elq
Westmeath
Newcastle
Buckland
Glasgow
Ireland
America
Dantzick
Thomas Renwick
Birmingham
Worcester
Bath
Westbury
Wilts
Samuel Yew
Charles Davey
Serjeant Davey
Salisbury
Devizes
Thomas Hyde
Pool
Wootton
Moretown
Dorsetshire
Port News
Plymouth
St. Maloes
Weymouth
Edward and
Mary
Gibbons
Dublin
Mary Teresa
Ford
Brothers
Whitby
Portsmouth
Wairon
Rotterdam
Deal
Racehorse
Spy
Savage
Ranger
Union
Admiral Smith
Norwich
Vestal
Hafsar
William and
Anne
Wind N.N.E
Downs
Aedea
Neptune
London
Rose
Leigh
Gibraltar
Ditto
St. Lewis
Sylva
Lisbon
Cork
Merlin
Brown
St. Anne
Forrestall
St. Lucar
Anson
Pearson
Letitia
Turner
Virginia
Lyme
Betsey
Perkins
Oporto
Liverpool
St. Antonio
de Vale
Pudade
Foneca
Nancy
Hunter
Hamburgh
Leostoffe
Unity
Wheelwright
Southampton
Whitehaven
Spithead
Portsouth
France
Carter
Brest
England
Morlaix
Normandy
Britany
Spain
Electorate of Hanover
North America
Germany
Hungary
Prussia
William Death
Samuel Stokes
Alarmes
St. Savory’s
Dinain
Vernor
Pries