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PG-P.748.044
15 Sep 1748:31 (1031)
Extract of a letter from Capt. Isaac Freeman, Commander of
the Bethel Frigate, to his owners in this town [Boston],
dated at St. John's in Newfoundland, Aug. 1. 1748. [39 lines
concerning the taking of a ship] . . . At 12 at night was
along side, when after a serenade of French horns, trumpets,
etc. demanded from whence she came, and whether bound? when
after a few equivocations allowable in such cases, as
pretending to be from Surinam to Holland, etc., she answer'd
she was from the Havanna for Cadiz, at which we gave them a
chear, and order'd her boat and Captain on board
immediately. . .
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