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Fowle's New Hampshire Gazette And General Advertiser
Portsmouth, Rockingham County, New Hampshire
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In Paris, 31 French captives redeemed from Algiers by religious orders processed through the city on October 17-19. Highlights include 80-year-old Michael Potavin after 30 years in slavery, reuniting with his 101-year-old mother. Two women, presumed widowed, remarried but faced shock upon husbands' return; one died, the other fell ill.
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Extract of a letter from Paris, October 21.
"The procession of the 31 French captives, redeemed this year from Algiers, by the Mathurins and the Fathers de la Mercy, took place the 17th, 18th, and 19th of this month. The oldest among these slaves, named Michael Potavin, is 80 years of age, thirty of which he has passed in slavery; and is now returned to his own country, where his mother is still living, aged 101 years.
Two women, the one living in the parish of St. Mary, and the other in St. Avoye street, have found their husbands again. One of them after ten, and the other thirteen years of widowhood, married again. They lived very happy with their second husbands; one had five children, and the other was lying in of the third. Their surprise was as great as their sorrow at the appearance of their former husbands. The woman who lived in St. Avoye-street was so struck, that she died, and the other lies dangerously ill."
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Paris
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17th, 18th, And 19th Of October
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31 captives redeemed and returned to france; one woman died from shock upon reunion, another lies dangerously ill
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Procession of 31 French captives redeemed from Algiers by the Mathurins and Fathers de la Mercy occurred on October 17-19. Oldest captive Michael Potavin, 80, spent 30 years in slavery and reunited with his 101-year-old mother. Two women in Paris, who had remarried after years of presumed widowhood, were shocked by their husbands' return; one died, the other is ill.