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Weekly Summary of Atrocious Piracy and Calamities
The document recounts a pirate attack on the Hon. Company ship St Helena on April 6 in latitude 1 30 south, involving a French-colored felucca with 40 to 63 boarders who murdered Captain Harrison and a crewman, plundered cargo, cut the ship’s rigging, and set her afire before abandoning her. A carpenter and two others remained aboard to save the vessel, bringing it to Sierra Leone. It also notes eruptions from Mount Vesuvius and Vesuvius-like activity in other regions, a Virginia court case on widows’ rights, prison indictments for swindling in Philadelphia, and various brief notices on weather, birds, banking, porcelain, and local curiosities.
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Hon. Company
Schr
St. Helena
South Jong
Harrison
Waddle
Sierra Leon
Stelly
Harris
Oak
New York
Palermo
Mountana
Iia
Do Kalbeonntys
Aho
Thomas Hayner
Philadelphia
Naplow
Africa
Virginia
Marsaga
Brockenbrower
Mupetar
Port Mahon
Mediterranean
Vanity Bank
Bank of the Valley
of Virginia
Henking House i Wine Ghesler
American Journal of Science
Silliman
Tucker
Toa Bridge
Lynn
Maas
New Orleans
Carthagena
Sucre
Jano
Pasto
Growcu
Netherlands
Albert of
Rasuia
Howse
Chyerkes Phasnix
Chotokov
Wittex
Roger
Tata
Connecticut
Changa
Avery
Sean
Peovaviryov van Viren
M. Robingas
Academy of Sciences
South Carolina
Bank of Virginia
Payabs Burg
Cincinnati
Dandeidyey Cashier
Brockenbrough, Provident
N. York Daily Advertiser
Western
Troy
Baltimore
Howard Steeot
Georgetown
Alexandria
Richmond County
Richmond
Petersburgh
York River
N. Carolina
Lake Chauso
Kentucky Reporter
Lexington
A. Shurtleff
Gous
Jane
Belfant
Savage State
Georgia
Uhe
Ta “Tun
Ite