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Privateering and Piracy in the Colonial Period

Note 1 — PRIVATEERS AT MARTINIQUE.

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A specimen of news of privateering in Queen Anne's War from one of the earliest issues of our first established newspaper; from the Boston News-Letter of May 15, 1704. That newspaper was founded by John Campbell, postmaster of Boston, son of Kidd's friend Duncan Campbell (see doc. no. 75). The first issue was for the week from Monday, April 17, to April 24, 1704. The text is taken from the file of the News-Letter possessed by the Massachusetts Historical Society.

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