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The New Hampshire Gazette And General Advertiser
Portsmouth, Exeter, Rockingham County, New Hampshire
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On July 2, Salem reported the recent capture of Lunenburg, Nova Scotia, by five small armed privateers from various ports. They burned a blockhouse to force surrender, looted goods worth over 8000 pounds sterling, ransomed the town for 1000 pounds, and took Col. Campbell and others as hostages.
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Yesterday we received intelligence, by the arrival of a small privateer in a neighbouring harbour, of the capture of Lunenburg, a Seaport town of Nova Scotia, by five small armed vessels, belonging to three or four different ports. Several hundred men were said to be resident in the town and its vicinity, in which a block house containing a few troops, had been erected for its defence. This building, in order to induce a surrender of the troops, was set fire to: after which, the captors loaded their vessels with various kinds of goods, and ransomed the town for 1000 l. sterling. A Col. Campbell, said to be an officer in the corps of Royal American Fencibles, and several other persons, were brought off, and are to be held as hostages, till the ransom is paid. The goods which the privateers took and brought away, are said to amount to the value of upwards of 8000 l. sterling.
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Lunenburg, Nova Scotia
Event Date
Recently, Intelligence Received Yesterday
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town ransomed for 1000 l. sterling; goods worth upwards of 8000 l. sterling taken; col. campbell and several others held as hostages until ransom paid; no casualties mentioned
Event Details
Five small armed vessels from three or four different ports captured Lunenburg; set fire to block house with troops to induce surrender; loaded vessels with goods; ransomed town