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The New York Packet
New York, New York County, New York
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Letter from Leghorn dated May 28 reports violent plague outbreak in Algiers and Bacca district on Barbary coast, causing port desertion; families reside on ships as lazarettos for safety; Algerine warships avoid port by staying at sea or refitting elsewhere.
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We just now learn, by the arrival of a felucca from the Barbary coast, that the plague rages with uncommon violence at Algiers, and in the district of Bacca; in consequence of which that port is deserted, except by a few ships, which some families have made lazarettos of, and reside in them as a place of greater security, during the tremendous visitation: Even the Algerine men of war are under such apprehensions of the danger, that they remain at sea, or go to refit at the ports of some of their neighbours.
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Algiers
Event Date
May 28
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port deserted except for a few ships used as lazarettos by families; algerine men of war remain at sea or refit at neighboring ports
Event Details
Plague rages with uncommon violence at Algiers and in the district of Bacca, learned via felucca from Barbary coast; port deserted due to the outbreak, with families residing on ships for security during the visitation