Privateering and maritime losses flood British ports
Amid steady warship movements and privateer activity, a flood of seizures, captures, and returns dominate reports. The Acteon, Niger, and L Eufreuve pursue prizes off Fowey. Aécon brings in a 14 gun French privateer. various ships including the General Johnson and multiple other vessels are captured or recaptured, with Jamaica and New York routes cited. Several ships arrive at Plymouth, Falmouth, Poole, and Corke. insurance fires signal danger. Royal Society officers are elected. and trials, marriages, deaths, and social notices fill pages as wartime turbulence reshapes trade and life.
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Prince of Orange
Plymouth
North America
Mounts-bay
Fowey
Acteon
Niger
L’eupreuve
Aécon
Harwich
Ulhiant
New York
Monte Christi
Windsor
Clarke
Port Prince
Rhode Island
Polly
Easton
Cape Francois
New London
Peggy
Banks
Louisburgh
Quebec
Charming Sally
Alletter
St. Croix
Atlas
Brayley
Maryland
Bristol
St. Mark
St. Malo’s
Cowes
Granby
Furlong
London
Portsmouth
Teneriffe
Needles
Spithead
Britannia
Jennings
Philadelphia
Lisbon
Portugal
Falmouth
Earl
Leicester
Morris
Young Hope
Longankirk
Streights
Pilchards
Poole
Sally
Coward
Elizabeth
Chitman
Newfoundland
Eagle
Pool
Tenby
Greyhound
Richards
Concord
Mackrell
Debe
Cumberland
Cox
Fogo
Newfiandland
Arouwe Magdalane
Sap
Amsterdam
Swiname
Southampton
Caesar
Watton
Stephen and
Francis
Forrest
Lyme
Rebecca
Fotheringham
Que Bec
Hopewell
Matthews
Hamburgh
Phillis
Roache
Guadalupe
Ann
Long
Waterford
New-York
Pompadour
Collingwood
New- York
Cadiz
Alexander
Capes
Susannah
Vankreeken
Heylige- Land
Ralph Bird
Hull
Bremen
St. Maloes
Guernsey
King George Packet
Browne
Jersey
Gibraltar
Creize
Corke
Seaton
Spotswood
Virginia
Randolph
King George
Cormack
Express
Holland
Col. Howe
Lord Howe
House of Commons
Nottingham
Rewley
Royal Society
Earl of Macclesheld
Tho. Birch
Charles Morton
Cretary
James Bradley
Charles Moss
Astronomer Royal
Nourse
James Burrow
Geo Lewis
Scot
Charles Cavendish
James Short
Peter Duval
Will, Sloane
Keane Fitzgerald
Philip Earl Stanhope
Ben
Franklin
Will. Watson
William Farquier
J.west
John Hadley
HughLd
Willoughby Samuel Mead
Parham
Benjamin Wilson
F. R.S
Crown and Anchor
Strand
Theatre Royal
Drury Lane
Polly Honeycombe
George Atwood
St. Mary Hall
Oxford
Earl Deloraine
Milverton
North Perrot
Bath and Wells
Hanmer
King’s College, Cambridge
Harsted
Coltishall
Norfolk
Carter
Robert Beaumont
Framsden
Helmingham
Sufolk
Bath
James Plunket
Pitt
Governor Pitt
Twickenham
Dawson-street
Dublin
John Newcomen
Moss Town
County of Longford
Sir Thomas Newcomen
Yeterday
Norwood
Claverton Down
Ashroyd
Meeting Notice of Mercia Company Freight Treaties
The Committee of the Company of Mércia trading to Africa announces a meeting on Wednesday December 3 1760 at Cowper's Court Cornhill to treat with shipowners for freight of goods and passengers to Fort Gambia or coast of Africa. Attendees with proposals to attend the Office for particulars.
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Company of Mércia
Afric
Famer Fort
Gambia
Africa
Cowper's Court
Cornhill
Biri o’Clack
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Norwich
Joseph Tompson
St. Andrew’s Hall
John Page
St. Andrew’s
Salisoury
John Wyche
Abbott
Edmund Abbott
Winterborne
Swayne Harbin
Newton
Yeovil
Somersetshire
Abingdon
Ray
Upham
Hampshire
Staite
Norway
Comilhe
Cuffam House
Ireland
England
Phineas Bury
Kingdom of Ireland
Aiah Postgate
Mate
Mungo Crawford
Carpenter
Francis King
Herbert William Corde
Neptune
James, Stewart
Matter
Lion
James Stewart
Robert Trimble
Cork
Wiliam Patterson
Phineasbury
Isaiah Postgate
Herbert William Cordell
Deponent
Rich
Ronsonby
Reb. Gordon
Sewart
Society For the Benefit
St. Paul’s Coffee House
St. Pa
T. Becket
P. A. Dehcat
Tully’s. Head