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I had the misfortune to be taken by the Yankee privateer, when bound to the head quarters, loaded with rum for the fleet and the army, from Antigua to New York. In lat. 36.40. long. 74.50. west, the said privateer, in the grey of the morning; gave chace, and got along side us about nine o'clock.
We had but 2 four pounders and 12 shot, and gave 11 of them; the other gun lost the fore-truck, or...
Date: 19 August 1776
Volume: Volume 6