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NYG(B.732.009
16-23 Oct 1732:12,21 (365)
Bristol, June [15 or 25]. Last night arrived the
Kertilington, Capt. Pitt, she came away from Jamaica the
27th of May thro' Gulph. A Spanish privateer of 8 guns and
full of men, attacked her off the Havanna, and after near
half an hours engagement, boarded her by beat of drum with
about 40 men; the Kertlington's crew, being but 17, retir'd
to their close-quarters, and the first killed was the
Spanish Drummer, and in a little time they killed all that
boarded her, having only two of their own crew wounded, . .
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