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Virginia Argus
Richmond, Virginia
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Report from Lyn Haven Look Out, Maryland, dated November 15: Enemy vessels departed the area on previous Thursday and Friday evenings amid northerly gales preventing return. Prisoners Kirk and Ball returned joyfully; enemy seized captured vessels and 170 negroes. Local citizen arrested for piloting enemy in river plundering incursions and held for trial.
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A gentleman stationed at Lyn Haven Look Out, Maryland, writes, under date of November 15th, that "the enemy's vessels left this vicinity on the evenings of Thursday and Friday last, since which time the wind has been blowing a gale from the northward, so that if they are disposed to return it is not in their power." Messrs. Kirk and Ball, who have been kept as prisoners by the enemy, have to the inexpressible joy of their friends returned. The enemy have taken away several vessels which they captured, and 170 negroes. A citizen of Maryland, near the Point, has been lately arrested charged with having piloted the enemy in their recent incursions up the rivers for plunder, and is confined for trial.
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Lyn Haven Look Out, Maryland
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November 15th
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enemy vessels departed; prisoners kirk and ball returned; several vessels and 170 negroes taken by enemy; citizen arrested and confined for trial
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A gentleman reports that the enemy's vessels left the vicinity on the evenings of Thursday and Friday last, since which time northerly gales have blown, preventing return. Prisoners Kirk and Ball, held by the enemy, have returned to friends' joy. The enemy took captured vessels and 170 negroes. A Maryland citizen near the Point was arrested for piloting the enemy in river incursions for plunder and is confined for trial.