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, ...
British Survey North American and West Indian Coasts, 1764
London, September 1. Letters have been received from Mr. Main, an officer and draughtsman on board the Carson government ship, fitted out to survey the sea coasts and settlements of the British Empire in America, that they have already ...
American Newspaper Editor Challenges Veracity of Report from London, 1764
London, September 8. By a Gentleman just arrived from the West Indies, and who had occasion before his departure to touch at Martineco, we are informed, that during the Time he was at that Place, 15 Vessels from N. ...
London Court Upholds Freedom of Former Slave, 1735
London [December 6, 1735]. Yesterday . . . at the Sittings of the of the Court of King’s Bench at Guildhall . . . one Codrington Galway, a Black, appeared upon his Recognizances for a Breach of the Peace, ...
King George the First’s Proclamation Against Trading with the French at Jamaica, 1720
JAMAICA. By the King. A Proclamation. Whereas we have received frequent Complaints from Merchants and Planters trading to, and interested in our Island of Jamaica, that an illegal Trade is carried on between our Subjects of our said Island, ...
British Account of Jamaican Slave Uprising, 1760
“AMERICA. Jamaica, May 8. The Rebellion amongst the Negroes has been of bad Consequence to the whole Island. Their plot was deep and cruel. Their Design was to rise at Kingston and Spanish Town, in ...
