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Privateering and Piracy in the Colonial Period

Note 5 — CASES OF JOHN ROSE ARCHER AND OTHERS.

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Admiralty judge. Capt. Thomas Durell, R.N., was the commander of H.M.S. Seahorse. Thomas Lechmere, younger brother of Lord Lechmere, was surveyor general of the customs for the northern district of America; he had married the only daughter of Major-Gen. Wait Winthrop, and was a defendant in the celebrated case of Winthrop vs. Lechmere. John Jekyll was collector of the port of Boston.

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