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The Rhode Island American, And General Advertiser
Providence, Providence County, Rhode Island
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Dutch fleet with admiral, governor, and 600 troops arrives at Surinam, awaiting orders from Guadaloupes commander-in-chief for likely surrender. Local markets report high prices for flour, staves, lumber, tobacco, molasses, sugar, and coffee.
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Captain Wiley, arrived at New-York, from Surinam, informs, that a Dutch fleet of two frigates, a brig of war, with an Admiral, Governor, and about six hundred troops on board, had just arrived at Surinam, and were waiting for orders from the commander in chief at Guadaloupe; on the receipt of which, it was supposed, the place would be surrendered.
Markets at Surinam—Flour, 4 dollars, red-oak staves, 20 dollars, white-pine lumber, 15 dollars, tobacco, 10 dollars, and every thing else in the same proportion. Molasses, 30 cents, sugar, 8, coffee, 14.
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Surinam
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the place would be surrendered
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Captain Wiley, arrived at New-York, from Surinam, informs, that a Dutch fleet of two frigates, a brig of war, with an Admiral, Governor, and about six hundred troops on board, had just arrived at Surinam, and were waiting for orders from the commander in chief at Guadaloupe; on the receipt of which, it was supposed, the place would be surrendered. Markets at Surinam—Flour, 4 dollars, red-oak staves, 20 dollars, white-pine lumber, 15 dollars, tobacco, 10 dollars, and every thing else in the same proportion. Molasses, 30 cents, sugar, 8, coffee, 14.