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Three front page pirate reports, and creating Walpole, Massachusetts...
Three front page pirate reports, and creating Walpole, Massachusetts...
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March 13, 1724
THE POST-BOY, London, March 13, 1724 The front page of this single sheet has three pirate reports, the first from "Rhode Island" which says: "Captain Jeremiah Clark arrived here this Morning from South Carolina, in about 8 days...who informs us, that he met at Sea with Capt. Richard Durssie of this Port, who told him he had been taken by Spriggs the Pyrate, who carry'd away his Mate and all his Men; but that the said Pyrate had given Durssie his Liberty, and bestow'd on him about 25 Negroes".
News under "London" includes a report stating that: "The Delight Pyrate, Capt. Sprigg, took...a sloop in the Service of the South-Sea Company, having Negroes on Board, and bound from Jamaica to...Havana; and...the same time he took...a Ship bound from Jamaica to New-England, and would have put all the Negroes on board...but...the Captain's...great want of Provisions and the Danger of their perishing by Famine if he took them in he was set at Liberty upon...taking only ten of them..." & a bit more.
Another report says a ship bound from Barbadoes to Virginia "...was...taken by a Spanish Pyrate in Lat. of 28 and...stript her of the Stores, Furniture and Cargo..." & a bit more. There is also a report from "Rhode-Island" about a fire to a warehouse and a ship that went aground on Elizabeth Island.
From "Boston in New England" is a word that the Lieut. Governor convened the General Court and gave his assent to 11 acts, including one to divide "...the Town of Sherbourn, and erecting a Town by the Name of Hollistown." And, "An Act dividing the town of Dedham, and erecting a new Town there, by the name of Walpole."
Has two engravings in the masthead. Nice condition.
Category: The 1600's and 1700's
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