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The Virginia Gazette
Williamsburg, Virginia
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In Boston, the ship Lydia under Capt. Scott sailed for London with British goods imported against merchants' agreement, despite Tory efforts to stop it; value over £15,000, remainder to follow soon.
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Last Saturday sailed, with a fair wind, for London, to the sad mortification of all the tories male and female, who have been using all the tricks which the grand cabal were capable of inventing to embarrass and hinder her voyage, the good ship Lydia, Capt. Scott, laden in part with British manufactures and other goods, lately imported from Great Britain contrary to the agreement of the merchants of America, to the amount of upwards of FIFTEEN THOUSAND POUNDS Sterling. The remainder of the goods lately imported contrary to the said agreement, will be re-shipped in the very next vessel for London.
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Boston
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Last Saturday
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ship sailed successfully for london with goods valued at over fifteen thousand pounds sterling; remainder of goods to be re-shipped in next vessel to london, to the mortification of tories who attempted to hinder the voyage.
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The ship Lydia, under Capt. Scott, sailed from Boston for London laden with British manufactures and other goods imported contrary to the agreement of American merchants; Tories used tricks to embarrass and hinder the voyage but failed.