American Gazette, Tuesday, July 2, 1776

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Salem, July 2.

We hear that Captain [Joseph] White in a Privateer Schooner¹ belonging to this Place has taken and sent into Beverly a large Sloop with One Hundred and Fifty Puncheons of Rum, said to be [bound from An]tigua to Ireland, which he took in his Passage for the West-Indies.² This is the second Prize he has taken and sent home.³ When the above Sloop left him, he was in Chace of Two other Vessels.

1. The Massachusetts privateer sloop Revenge, of 12 guns, 16 swivels and 85 men, Mass. Arch., vol. 6, 339.

2. The sloop Betsey, bound from Antigua for Ireland, New-England Chronicle, July 4, 1776.

3. Ibid., June 20, 1776, White's first prize was the brig Fanny, Richard Blythe, master, with 130 hogsheads of rum, from Antigua, libeled against June 20, 1776.

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1776 July 2

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American Gazette (Salem, Mass.)

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American Theatre from May 9, 1776, to July 31, 1776

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