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 ...
English Sailors Recover Sloop Seized by Spanish Guarda Costa, 1769
London [January 10, 1770]. A Letter from Philadelphia, dated November 30th [1769] says, “By Captain Miller, from Savanna le Mar, in Jamaica, we learn that on the 20th of October, a sloop was brought in there by two Englishmen, ...
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 ...
French Sailors Visit Plymouth Unannounced, 1719
London [March 21, 1719]. There is an Account come from Plymouth, that, last Sunday, in the Evening, two small Vessels, under French Colours, came into the Sound, and sent their Boats to the Shoar, to buy Provisions; the Men ...
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 ...
