Bold Rhode Island Sloop Pillages Spanish West Indian Port, 1740
London [April 12, 1740]. By a Ship lately arrived from New-England, departed from Newport, we have the following Account: That Mr. Thomas Newton, Quarter-Master of the Virgin Queen, Capt. Hall, was returned home, having sailed from Newport in a ...
Infestation of Pirates in the Gulf of Florida, 1716
London [December 1716]. They write from Cork, that the Berkeley Galley, Captain Saunders, arrived there from Jamaica, was in her Passage in the Gulph of Florida, set upon by a Pyrate, and after an Engagement of some time, boarded ...
Mutiny Thwarted Aboard Slave Ship, 1738
Bristol, April 1 [1738]. Our Merchants have Letters from on Board the Tewksbury, Capt. Bryant, trading at Abonoe, on the Gold Coast of Guinea, that in her Passage from Boston, where she was lately built on Purpose for the ...
Plea for Help from Enslaved British Sailor, 1749
London. Extract of a Letter from Algier, Jan. 5, 1749. “Sir, This being the first Opportunity I have had since my being in Slavery, I have embraced it by the Trial Sloop of War, which arrived here about four or ...
