Archive for ‘smuggling’

Tragedy at a Scottish Public House, 1755

“London. The following melancholy Affair happened lately at Annan* in Scotland. A Party of Soldiers having gone to assist the Custom-house Officers in making a Seizure of some prohibited Goods that they had been informed were in that ...

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New York City: Call for Informers (1753)

"WHEREAS we have great Reason to believe. there has been for some Time lately carried on, a clandestine illegal Trade, by some of the Traders of this Place, to Holland and other Parts: THESE are therefore to give this publick Notice, ...

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