Williamson's Liverpool Advertiser and Mercantile Chronicle, Friday, May 1, 1778

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LIVERPOOL.

The Prince and Liberty, an American brig from Cayan from Carolina, loaded with wine, rum, medicines, and dry goods, took by the Pole, Captain Maddocks, belonging to this port is brought into New York.1

The Sally, Smith, of this port,² upon a cruize in the West Indies has taken an American vessel loaded with lumber, and sunk a privateer of 12 guns and another ship belonging to this port has taken three prizes on the coast of Carolina.³

1. British letter of marque ship Pole, J. Maddock, commander, 250 tons burthen, mounting eighteen 6-pounders, built at Liverpool in 1768, owned by J. Neilson. Lloyd’s Register of Ships, 1777–1778. Rivington’s New-York Loyal Gazette of 28 Feb. 1778 reported that the Prince and Liberty had arrived in New York on 22 Feb.

2. British letter of marque sloop Sally, Wilkinson, commander, 200 tons burthen, mounting twelve 4-pounders, built in Philadelphia in 1759, rebuilt in 1765, and extensively repaired and altered in 1773 and 1775. Lloyd’s Register of Ships, 1777 –1778.

3. There is a list of privateers and letters of marque from Liverpool operating in American waters in The New-York Gazette; and the Weekly Mercury, Feb. 2, 1778. NDAR 11: 266. The vessel referred to here was probably the privateer ship Ellis, T. Jolly, commander. See NDAR 11: 1059–60.

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Date

1778 May 1

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Volume 12

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European Theatre from April 1, 1778 to May 31, 1778