The Prize Brig.,1 laden with Cloathing, mentioned in our last to have been taken and sent into this Port, by Capt. Skimmer, should have been by Captains Skimmer and Tucker. She had on board 664 dozen Men's Shoes; 41 doz. Women's ditto; 548 doz. silk, worsted and yarn Stockings; 228 pieces milled Pladding; 6 dozen Men's Shammy Gloves; 11 dozen milled ditto; 62 dozen worsted and yam ditto; 1 dozen silk ditto; 11 dozen milled Mittens; 402 pieces Linnen; 247 dozen ruffled Shirts; 18 dozen plain ditto; 5 7 dozen Check ditto; 3052 yards Blanketing; 74 dozen Pladding Breeches; 100 dozen Pladding Waistcoats; 7 dozen milled ditto; 16429 yards Oznabrigs; 2436 yards white and blue napped Cottons; 1525 yards Dowlass; 25 reams Writing Paper; 18 dozen worsted Caps; 116 lb. sewing Thread; 994 yards Bed-Ticking; 231 yards Brown Holland; 100 dozen printed Handkerchiefs; 19 dozen Check ditto; 77 Table Cloths 1989 yards Sheeting, 205 yards Diaper; 14 pieces Long Lawn; 7 pieces Cambricks; 231 lb. Nuns white Thread; 36 lb. whitened brown ditto; 192 lb. Oznabrigs Thread; 112 pieces printed Cloth; 64 dozen fine thread Night Caps; 9 dozen Cotton ditto; 33 lb. white Thread, sorted; 6 dozen Men's Shambuck Breeches; 6 dozen ditto Lamb; 5 dozen grounded Lamb ditto; 27 casks Nails, sorted; 10 boxes Candles, 30 boxes Soap; 30 hogsheads Porter; 149 pieces Sail Cloth, containing 5781 yards; 150 firkins Butter; 65 dozen bottles red Port Wine; 114 ditto Sherry; 106 ditto Lisbon; and 50 bushels Barley. — Amount of Invoice £2503 2s 8d 3-4.
To be Sold by Public Auction, On Friday, 29th Instant, On Colonel [John] Hancock's Wharf, The Prize Brig Lord Lifford, of 130 Tons, with all her Appurtenances. This Brig is a prime Sailer, well found, and but two Years old.2
She will be put up for Sale at Twelve o'Clock.
By Order of the Agent. On Tuesday, 26th Instant, At Ten in the Morning, will be sold by Public Auction, On Stephen's Wharf, in Beverly, The Cargo of the Ship St. Lucea, from Jamaica, consisting of about 500 Hogsheads of best Jamaica Sugar, and 20 Puncheons of old Jamaica Rum, a Proof for the London Market. Also, said Ship, being a fine new British-built Vessel, about 350 Tons burthen, half Frigate-built, and capable of being made a most excellent Ship of War. She is a prime Sailer. 3
And on Wednesday the 27th of November, Will be Sold, At the Hon. John Hancock, Esq'rs Wharf, The Warlike Stores and Provisions of The Private Schooner Boston, lately returned from a Cruize, Consisting of — Four fine doublefortified 3-pound Cannon, with Carriages, Rarnrners, &c. compleat [12] good Swivels fixt, 12 Spears, 6 Cutlasses, 250 lb. good Powder, 12 excellent made Arms, a Quantity of Cannon and Swivel Shot for said Guns and Swivels, a Number of Powder Horns and Musket-Balls, &c. — Also a Quantity Pork, Beef, Bread, Peas, Beans, Rum, Rice, Candles, &c.
Procter & Lowell, Auctioneers.4
