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Fowle's New Hampshire Gazette And General Advertiser
Portsmouth, Rockingham County, New Hampshire
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The American ship Free American, Capt. Dent, arrived in Lisbon leaky under jury masts after evading capture by Algerine cruisers, which seized the accompanying Franklin Merchant and sent it to Algiers.
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Arrived the Free American, Capt. Dent, from Philadelphia, with a valuable cargo, bound for Amsterdam, under jury masts, and very leaky. She sailed from Philadelphia in company with the Franklin Merchant ship, of 240 tons, bound to Ostend, which was captured on the 16th of November by two Algerine cruisers, who sent her to Algiers, and boarded the Free-American, but finding the Captain an Englishman, and the ship and cargo English property, suffered her to go free."
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Algiers
Event Date
16th Of November
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franklin merchant ship captured and sent to algiers; free american boarded but released as english property.
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The Free American sailed from Philadelphia with the Franklin Merchant ship. On November 16, two Algerine cruisers captured the Franklin Merchant (240 tons, bound to Ostend) and sent it to Algiers. They boarded the Free American (bound to Amsterdam with valuable cargo) but released it upon finding the captain English and the ship/cargo English property.