London Chronicle, Saturday, May 24 to Tuesday, May 26, 1777

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Admiralty Office, May 26.

Captain Jervis, of his Majesty's Ship the Foudroyant, in a letter received this day, gives an account of his having taken on the 19th inst. the schooner Finch [sic Lynch], John Adams, master, which had sailed that morning from Nantz, bound to Boston, with arms and cloathing for the use of the rebel army; and by a letter also received this day from the Hon. Capt. Leveson Gower of the Valiant, it appears that on the 14th instant he had taken a New England vessel, but last from Charlestown, laden with rice and indigo, bound to Nantz: The former is since arrived at Plymouth, the latter at Portsmouth. ¹

1. In the Public Advertiser, London, May 27, 1777, a letter from Portsmouth dated May 25 reads:

Yesterday was brought in here by an Officer belonging. to the Valiant Man of War, a Brig called the Effingham, Capt. Drew, from Charlestown for Nantz, with Rice, Tobacco, and Indigo: She was taken about eight Leagues S.W. of Scilly by the Valiant, who was in Chace of a Privateer when the Effingham left her.

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1777 May 26

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Volume 8

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