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Extract of a Letter Received in London

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EXTRACT OF A LETTER RECEIVED IN LONDON, DATED HALIFAX, NOVA-SCOTIA, OCTOBER 1, 1776.

On Sunday last we received advice from Liverpool, in this Province, that some of the American privateers had taken in port Medway a brig belonging to Captain Hall; a sloop, the property of Mr˙ Richard Cunningham, of this town, and several others; and also a ship, nearly loaded with lumber, spars, &c˙, out of which they took the provisions, sails, anchors, cables, &c˙, cut away all the rigging, and after destroying part of the said ship left her. A schooner loaded with cattle, roots, &c˙, was likewise taken coming out of the harbour of Liverpool, bound to this port.

[The obvious object of these excursions, and others, some on Kennebeck River, Bay of Fundy, &c˙, in which the New-England troops have been assisted by the New-England

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privateers, has been to distress the garrison at Halifax. They expect to be joined by a party in the Colony.]

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