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BG.741.003
15-22 Jun 1741:32 (1008)
New London, in Connecticut Colony, June 18 1741. At ten
o'clock this morning Mr. James Beebe arriv'd 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 south side of said island, near Hampstead Plain to the
number of one thousand men, at the town of Rockway, and have
burnt the town to ashes; . . . [10 more lines in this para]
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