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The Virginia Gazette
Williamsburg, Virginia
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Report from New Bern on French authorities in Hispaniola seizing English vessels, including a Rhode Island brig, for carrying counterfeit pistoles, nearly halting English trade at Cape Francois and other ports. The brig's clerk confessed to having 300 fake pistoles and was sentenced to death, with vessel and cargo confiscated.
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By Capt. Howard, from Hispaniola, we have advice that the French in that island seize every English vessel that arrives there, in order to search for counterfeit pistoles, which have been carried among them by the vessels from the northern colonies to a very considerable amount, so as almost to put a stop to the English trade at the Mount, Cape Francois, and other French ports in that island. A large brig from Rhode Island was lately seized at Cape Francois, on suspicion of this traffic. A young Gentleman on board, clerk to the owner of the brig, whose virtue and honesty was not totally corrupted, freely acknowledged that he had on board 300 of those base pistoles, which his master, whether Jew or Gentile we know not, had engaged him to pass among them.
The consequence was confiscation of the vessel and cargo, and the young man sentenced to die.
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Cape Francois, Hispaniola
Event Date
Lately
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confiscation of the vessel and cargo, and the young man sentenced to die
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French in Hispaniola seize English vessels arriving there to search for counterfeit pistoles carried from northern colonies, nearly stopping English trade at Mount, Cape Francois, and other ports. A large brig from Rhode Island seized at Cape Francois on suspicion; its clerk confessed to having 300 base pistoles intended to pass among the French.