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The New Hampshire Gazette
Portsmouth, Rockingham County, New Hampshire
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Boatmen en route from Onondago salt spring to Niagara had their vessel and £60 cargo seized by British forces at Fort Oswego as a legal prize. In reprisal, the owner raised men who captured a British boat worth over £300 at Three River Points. Rivers westward are patrolled by privateers enforcing the U.S. embargo.
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WHITESTOWN, (Penn.) May 4.
The following may be depended on as fact:
Some boatmen were proceeding with a boat load
of salt, and other articles, valued at £60. from
the Onondago salt spring, to Niagara, while
passing Fort Oswego, a detachment of BRIT-
ISH FORCES stationed at that place, seized
the boat and cargo, and condemned them as a
legal prize. The owner of the property seized,
obtained information that a boat was dispatched
from Niagara some time since for Schenectady,
on the Mohawk river, by the subjects of his Brit-
annic Majesty, for articles to a considerable
amount.
Exasperated at his usage at Fort Oswego, he
raised a party of men, and proceeded to the
Three River Points, where they came across,
the boat belonging to Niagara, on its return with
a cargo valued at upwards of three hundred
pounds, which they seized upon as a reprisal of
the property taken from them at Fort Oswego.
We hear further, that the banks of the rivers
to the westward are lined with privateers, waiting
for boats bound to Niagara, and other
British settlements, which they are determined
to detain, not only as reprisals, but as violations
of the embargo laid upon all vessels in the ports
and harbours of the United States. CA IRA.
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Primary Location
Fort Oswego
Event Date
May 4
Outcome
boat and cargo valued at £60 seized by british at fort oswego; reprisal seizure of british boat and cargo valued at over £300 at three river points; privateers detaining boats violating embargo.
Event Details
Boatmen transporting salt and articles valued at £60 from Onondago salt spring to Niagara had their boat seized by British forces at Fort Oswego as legal prize. Owner learned of British boat from Niagara to Schenectady on Mohawk river. Raised party of men, intercepted and seized returning British boat at Three River Points as reprisal. Rivers to westward lined with privateers detaining boats to Niagara and British settlements for embargo violations.