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I have just got here after one of the most disagreeable Passages that ever I experienced ー We sprung our Fore Mast and were forcd to get every thing of[f] it to keep it from going over the side. And a few days after we lost our Main Mast which gave way even with the deck, and gave us little more warning than was Necessary to stand from Under. As it Blew a fret of wind and a very high Sea going to...
Date: 11 March 1777
Volume: Volume 8
I have the Pleasure to acquaint You that on the fourth of Septr 30 Leags S E of Charles Town Barr I met with and took after a little Resistance the True Britain Thomas Venture Master of twenty six pounders and seventy four Men — the Brig Charming Peggy Capt Lyon both Laden with Rum for the British Army and Navy and bound from Jamaica to New York — The Ship Severn Capt Henderson (of eight four...
Date: 12 September 1777
Volume: Volume 9