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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 ...

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New York Masons Celebrate New Provincial Grand Master, 1753

“At a Grand Lodge of the Ancient and Worshipful Fraternity of Free and Accepted Masons, a Commission from the Honourable John Proby, Baron of Carysfort, in the Kingdom of Ireland, Grand Master of England, appointing George Harrison, Esq.; to be ...

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