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A letter from Virginia, dated Tebinary T2 %s, On the 4th day of January laft, aboutfcmfet, a party of armed men from the rebel army, ftattonedtn the town of Norfolk, went to Sofport, where theybroke open all 'the warehouses and plundered them, and that night fet fire to all the buildings-on the place, and burnt them to the ground ; the deftruion of that place is a very ‘heavy loft to Mr. Andrew S*pmwle, s'fisci fnend to government, who isfhsrfole proprietor 5 the warehotffes were very valuable j betides'tfcefe, and all fhis dwelHng-hoofes, there was-in‘his {lores many heavy andbulky goods of confiderable value, 4b that ids lofveannat *be-lefs than ’many thoiifaod pounds ilefling ; be*has alfo- had two houfes burnt in Norfolk”
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Edinburgh Advertiser

Edinburgh, Midlothian, GB

Fri, Apr 19, 1776

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