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The New Hampshire Gazette And General Advertiser
Portsmouth, Exeter, Rockingham County, New Hampshire
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Privateer Dolphin, owned by James Wakefield, captured a packet from New York carrying British mail addressed to officials like the Lords Commissioners and Sir Henry Clinton. The unopened mail is being sent to Congress from Edenton.
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Extract of a letter from Edenton, May 29.
"The privateer Dolphin, belonging to Mr. James Wakefield, has taken a packet from New-York: the mail is now in town. I have seen the box: it is directed to a set of vagabonds, viz. To the Right Honorable the Lords Commissioners of Trade for the Plantations in America: also, many other letters to Sir Henry Clinton, Knight of the Bath, and to many more of this stamp. Mr. Wakefield will send on the mail, with the other letters, to Congress: we have them in safe possession. They go from hence unopened, that nothing may transpire before Congress have it published by order."
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Primary Location
Edenton
Event Date
May 29
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mail captured and held in safe possession; to be sent unopened to congress.
Event Details
The privateer Dolphin, belonging to Mr. James Wakefield, captured a packet from New-York containing mail addressed to British officials including the Lords Commissioners of Trade and Sir Henry Clinton. The mail is now in Edenton and will be forwarded to Congress unopened to prevent information leakage before official publication.