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On the 24th of last month was brought to town gaol one John Wilson, commander of a small American schooner privateer, who had taken in the month of April last, off Cortland, the ship Champion, Capt. Fellows, belonging to this island.2 He says, that they now put in at Man of war bay to get good water; but being discovered by some Negroes in a plantain walk, they went and informed the...
Date: 5 September 1777
Volume: Volume 9
A Spanish guarda costa, belonging to the Havannah, named the St. Joseph, having had the temerity to anchor in Kingston harbour, and there to seize a Spanish trading sloop, under pretence of her being a smuggler. The commanding officer of the fort finding the guarda costa had got under way with the sloop in company, caused a gun to be fired at her to bring her to, and to oblige her to set the...
Date: 6 September 1777
Volume: Volume 9