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The New Hampshire Gazette
Portsmouth, Rockingham County, New Hampshire
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Merchants in St. Peter's, Martinico, thank General Monckton for conquering the island, boosting Sugar Islands trade, by commissioning a silver service; they lament his return to New York governorship. (Date: May 23, 1762)
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The merchants of this place truly sensible of the great advantages accruing to the trade of the Sugar Islands in general, and to this in particular, from the conquest of Martinico, and its dependencies; in gratitude to General Monckton, who achieved this great work with so much courage and conduct, and afterwards protected and established the rights of trade with so much equity and judgment, are now subscribing for an elegant service of plate, as an humble testimony of the sense they retain of his merits; while they cannot enough regret the loss they sustain by his return to his government of New York.
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St. Peter's, Martinico
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May 23, 1762
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conquest of martinico and its dependencies achieved; rights of trade protected and established; merchants subscribing for an elegant service of plate; general monckton returning to his government of new york
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Merchants of St. Peter's, Martinico, sensible of trade advantages from the conquest of Martinico and its dependencies, express gratitude to General Monckton for achieving the conquest with courage and conduct, and for protecting and establishing trade rights with equity and judgment; they are subscribing for an elegant service of plate as testimony of his merits, and regret the loss from his return to New York.