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Notorious highwaymen and naval prizes in 1741 extracts
The text reports executions at Tyburn of Henry Cook the Stratford Shoemaker and accomplices for robbery. It notes ship captures near Carolina and St Augustine escapes, plus accounts from Petersburg and Whitehall of Swedish/Russian engagements, prize ships near Vivero, and weekly disease and burial tallies.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Henry Cook
Stratford
Joseph Hudson
Patrick Bourn
Mary Harris
Tyburn
Lamb
Elizabeth Hardy
Svilics
Providence
Plymoun
South Carolina
Boston
Crawford
America
Ford
St. Augustine’s Castle
Frederica
Georgia
Moulden
St. Sebastian’s
Jane
Arriv’d
Roebuck
Stoddard
Newfoundland
London Gazette
Dantzick
Arriv
Petersburg
Lacy
Wilmerstrand
Wrangel
Whitehall
Medley
Naffau
Vivero
Martin
Assistance
Spithead