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AWM.741.017
25 Jun-2 Jul 1741:21 (1122)
New-London, in Connecticut Colony, June 18. At ten o'clock
this morning Mr. James Beebe arrived from South-Hold on
Long-Island, and informs, that this morning a little before
day, his Capt. Mr. Richard Brown sent his drummer to inform
him the said Beebe, who gave him the following account from
said Capt. Brown, viz. "Last Tuesday night after ten of the
clock, the enemy (of what nation is not known) landed on the
southside of said island near Hemstead Plain to the number
of one thousand men, at the Town of Rockway and have burnt
the town to ashes; that a post came to Col. Henry Smith of
Brockhaven, who sent to Capt. Hubbard of South Hold with the
above account, and further saith, that all the military
companies on said island to the west of south Hold march'd
yesterday . . .
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