Maritime dispatches recount privateer captures and chase
Admiralty notices dated January report British sloops Carcass and Bonetta pursuing a French snow privateer named Du Guay Tronin, ten guns and fifty-two men, off St Malo. Anson cutter seized another French privateer of ten guns and fifty-four men from Dunkirk. Diligence, Captain Osborn, reports capturing a six gun sixty men privateer off Cape Barfleur. Ketzon, Captain Ourty, pursued a brig and a snow off Start, capturing the snow cartel from Quebec and the Grivois, a ten gun privateer from St Maloes, after it had been at Cherbourg three days.
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Admiralty Office
Fetter
Grit Paft
St. Malo
Dunkirk
Havre
Osborn
Diligence
Cape Barfleur
St. Maloes
Ourty
Quebec
Cherburg
London News and Naval Orders From the Admiralty
Reports on public notices for the Public Ledger, naval orders to cruise 150 to 200 leagues westward, ships lost or taken near Virginia and York, weather and merchant movements, port arrivals at Gravesend and Ostend, and various royal and legal notices with deaths, marriages, and local incidents.
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Groyne
Ireland
Richards
Alexander
Virginia
Prince Irederick
Wheldon
London
Mouton
Lisbon
Madeira
Barbadoes
Hall
Gravesend
Nils Tornland
Ostend
Unity
Thompson
Halifax
St. Maboel
William and John
Cunningham
Seville
Edinburgh
Murray
Clyde
Jamaica
Johanna
Shields
Quebec
Rochelle
St. Isabella, Morris, From Cadiz; the Margaret and Mary, M ‘Carty
Oporto
Preston
M‘faden
Dublin
Xavier
John Baptist
Joze Roiz
Hifferon
Corke
Marn
Bett
Thomson
Ritchie
Ramage
Brice
Grindley
Leith
Harwich
Union
Strahan
South Carolina
Downs
Provisions for Sick Seamen and POWs Offered for 12 Months
The Office for Sick and Wounded Seamen and for Exchanging Prisoners of War announces readiness on Friday the 16th infant 1761 to receive sealed terms from those able to supply the sick and wounded seamen and Marines at Haflar and Forton Hospital with bread beef mutton fresh and salt batter oatmeal wood candles and coal. Interested parties may apply to the Secretary or Mrs Trotman, steward, for further details.
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Hanoverian
Princess Augusta
Prince William
Prince Henry
Chapel Royal
Jenner
Earl of
Cardigan
Lord Henley
Lincoln’s Inn
Count de St. Germain
France
Denmark
Versailles
Aix-la-Chapelle
Duffeldorp
Arnheim
Thither
Leipfic
Prussia
Saxony
Calais
Yver
East Indies
S Mall
George Saville
Gream
Halifax
Leeds
Smithfield
Sussex
London
Mr. Higginbotham
Bishopsgate Street
Botolph Tane
Bell-yard
Temple-bar
Temple Bar
Notte
Haflar and
Forton
Mra Trotman
City to re receive proposals for Blackfriars Bridge works
Guildhall dated January 1 1761 announces a meeting on January 13 at four o clock to receive proposals for Masonry and Carpenter works for the Blackfriars Bridge. Surveyor Robert Mylne will oversee plans, sections and elevations with daily office attendance to print material and work specifications. Contracts paid by admeasurement require timely completion and contractor security.
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Navy Office
His Majesty’s Navy
His Majesty
Deptford
Guildhall
Mafons and Carpenters
Black Friars Stairs
Committee of Common Council
Robert Mylne
Black Friars
Taco
Agres Bo
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Lewis Leary
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Martin
Henry Fortescue
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William Fletcher
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Jane Marks
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Ur Sale
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UBLIC
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