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The Virginia Gazette
Richmond, Williamsburg, Richmond County, Virginia
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In New London, Capt. Ezekiel Rogers returned from Huntington, Long Island, in his sloop after delivering a British prisoner to the ship Swan. On his return off Saybrook, he was boarded by a British tender, imprisoned in the hold, taken toward Huntington, and released after plundering upon sighting the Swan.
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July 4.
Last Wednesday Capt. Ezekiel Rogers in sloop, returned from Huntington, Long Island, has sent a flag from this port, and delivered a British prisoner on board the ship Swan, and on his return off Say Brook, he was boarded by a small sloop, tender to the British sloop Halifax, the commander of which put Capt. Rogers and his people into the vessel's hold, and proceeded with his sloop as far as Huntington; and when they came in sight of the Swan they let him go, after plundering him.
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New London
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Last Wednesday
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plundered and released without injury
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Capt. Ezekiel Rogers, returning from Huntington, Long Island, in his sloop after delivering a British prisoner to the ship Swan, was boarded off Say Brook by a small sloop tender to the British sloop Halifax. The commander imprisoned Rogers and his crew in the hold, proceeded toward Huntington, and released them upon sighting the Swan after plundering.