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Public Ledger

Location

London, Middlesex, United Kingdom

Date

Dec 02, 1760

Page

2

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.

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.

Company of Mércia Afric Famer Fort Gambia Africa Cowper's Court Cornhill Biri o’Clack

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