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 ...
Bold French Raid in New York Bay, 1704
Amboy [New Jersey], July 29 [1704]. On Wednesday last by an Express from Monmouth sent to his Excellency my Lord Cornbury, we were informed of a French Privateer that lay at Sandy-Hook, who the Night before had landed 24 ...
Navy Tender Takes on Spanish Privateer off Land’s End, 1740
London, June 10 [1740]. On the 8th Instant a Tender called the Lilliputian from being the smallest belonging to the Navy, took a Spanish Privateer off the Land’s End. She lay under Spanish Colours ‘till the Tender came ...
Channel-Islands Privateer in Action off the Coast of France, 1757
Extract of a letter from Jersey, dated on board the Charming-Nancy Privateer of that Island, Captain Winter, who has been out about three Weeks. “We have brought in here a French Privateer of six Carriage Guns, 14 Swivels, and 50 Men; ...
Admiral Cotes and British Naval Operations in the Caribbean, 1757
LONDON. “Extracts of two Letters from Vice-Admiral [Thomas] Cotes, Commander in Chief of his Majesty’s Ships at Jamaica, to Mr. [John] Cleveland, dated the 5th and 31st of December, 1757. ‘The 20th of November his majesty’s ship Assistance chaced a ...
Slaves Defend British Slave Ship Against Spanish Privateer, 1740
“Williamsburg, in Virginia, July 10 [1740]. This Week arrived in York River, the Snow Seaflower, Capt. Edwards, (the former Capt. being dead) from Guinea, with 159 Slaves, consigned to Col. Braxton & Son. They met with a Spanish ...
