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The New Hampshire Gazette
Portsmouth, Rockingham County, New Hampshire
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Captains Briant from Montserrat and Hills from St. Eustatia arrived yesterday, reporting the capture of a Bristol letter of marque ship under Capt. Lewis by two French frigates and taken to Martinico, clarifying it was not the local Hertford Privateer.
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Capt. Hills from St. Eustatia in 23 Days informs, That the Hertford Privateer of this Port was not taken as has been reported, but that it was one Capt. Lewis in a Letter of Marque, bound from Bristol to the West-Indies, as describ'd by Capt. Briant above.
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Yesterday
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letter of marque ship of 24 carriage guns and 60 men belonging to bristol taken by two french frigates of 26 guns each and carried into martinico; no account of capt. lewis's being taken; clarification that hertford privateer of this port was not taken, but capt. lewis in a letter of marque bound from bristol to the west-indies
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Capt. Briant arrived in 17 days from Montserrat with intelligence of the capture; Capt. Hills arrived in 23 days from St. Eustatia with correction that the captured ship was Capt. Lewis's, not the Hertford Privateer