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A letter from an officer on board his Majesty's ship Milford, stationed in America, says, "It is astonishing what great success our frigate has met with in taking prizes; it is computed our foremast men will share upwards of 140 l. each.["]
New York abounds now with prizes brought in by the cruisers, and prize goods sell at a great rate; so that the captors are likely to get a good deal of money.
Date: 27 December 1776
Volume: Volume 7
An officer of the King's, who had been a prisoner, was lately brought through the post of Ticonderoga, and reports that the rebels were at work upon their fleet for next season, and says that they had laid the keels of 26 boats, large and small. The General [Carleton] has, on our part, laid the keels of six, one of which is to be a 20 gun ship. Little is to be apprehended from these preparations...
Date: 16 January 1777
Volume: Volume 8
Tuesday last [January 28] was brought into this port, the ship Oxford, from York River, in Virginia, loaded 412 hogsheads of tobacco and staves, which was intended for Nanltz, in France; on the passage, four of the ships company took the vessel from the rest, being eight, besides the supercargo, Mr. Hall, and Mr. Richards, a passenger. It appears that these four resolute brave men (two of whom...
Date: 31 January 1777
Volume: Volume 8
A letter received from an Officer on board Lord Howe's ship at New York, says, "His Lordship has just been some time dangerously ill, but is now perfectly recovered. Our seamen in the fleet live extremely well, being put at three watches by order from the Admiral, and instead of bad provisions, which they were formerly supplied with, have now the best that can be got, their duty which used to be...
Date: 8 April 1777
Volume: Volume 8
Advice has been received by the Dartmouth, Capt. Graves, who is arrived in the river from Seville, that several American privateers are cruising within a few leagues of Seville; and that it is very dangerous for any ships sailing to that port without a strong convoy, as some of the privateers mount from ten to 18 guns, besides swivels.
Date: 21 May 1777
Volume: Volume 8
So apprehensive are the Captains of the Irish vessels, trading from France to this kingdom, of falling into the hands of the Provincials, that not one of them will take charge of letters as heretofore, and they are under the necessity of sailing with French colours, as their only hope of escaping from the swarm of American privateers which hover about the coasts of that kingdom.
Date: 12 July 1777
Volume: Volume 9
The following is the copy of a letter from Capt. Holland, in Sarah Colburn, bound to Jamaic[a] from this port.1
At Sea, ship Sarah Goulburn, lat 44.0. N. long. 39.00. W. 19th July, 1777.
Gentlemen,
I congratulate you upon a prize I have taken, this day, named the Sally, Thomas Tracy, master, from Charles Town, South Carolina, bound to Nantz, loaded with 470 whole, and 120 half, barrels...
Date: 8 August 1777
Volume: Volume 9
A ship from Liverpool has brought in here an American sloop, which she took on her passage; she was bound from New England to Martinico; her cargo consists of 50,000 feet of lumber, and 200 1. in hard dollars, to buy European goods with; by this means all the Spanish cash will find its way out of the continent of America to the islands. We have had several vessels here with lumber from St....
Date: 25 September 1777
Volume: Volume 9