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The New Hampshire Gazette
Portsmouth, Rockingham County, New Hampshire
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Capt. Cochran arrived in Boston from Newfoundland on a schooner, reporting a French frigate capturing and ransoming several local vessels. He brought a survivor from a Bristol-owned letter of marque ship bound for Newfoundland, which exploded after a French privateer attack near Ireland, killing 207 of 212 aboard.
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Last Wednesday arrived here Capt. Cochran in a Schooner from Newfoundland, who informs, a French Frigate had been cruising there and taken several Vessels belonging to Newfoundland, which were ransomed. In Capt. Cochran came a Person who belonged to a Letter of Marque Ship, owned in Bristol, and sailed from Ireland in the Spring, bound for Newfoundland which Ship was attacked 7 days after he left Ireland, by a French Privateer, and by some Means one of the Enemy's Grenadoes got into her Magazine, which blew her up, whereby the whole Crew were blown up, except 5. The Captain of her was -Melone, and the Souls on board were 212 in Number.
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Newfoundland
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Last Wednesday
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whole crew blown up except 5 out of 212 souls on board
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Capt. Cochran arrived in Boston from Newfoundland reporting a French Frigate cruising there and taking several Newfoundland vessels which were ransomed. He brought a survivor from a Bristol-owned Letter of Marque Ship that sailed from Ireland in the Spring bound for Newfoundland; the ship was attacked 7 days after leaving Ireland by a French Privateer, resulting in an enemy's Grenado entering the Magazine and blowing up the ship.