Connecticut Privateers in the Revolution

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Newspaper articles regarding Connecticut Privateers in the Revolution. Various daring exploits of privateers who swept through the seas, supplying the army with their seized prizes from British ships. Among the sailors of Connecticut, those from New London were said to be the best.


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3 pages

DOC.ND03572

Newspaper Clippings

Revolutionary War

Budington, Capt.
Hopkins, J. (Capt.)
Reed, Capt.
Starr, Timothy (Capt.)
Brutus, Junius
Billings, Henry
House, George
Champlin, Samuel
Saltonstall, Dudley (Capt.)
Watson, Capt.
Babcock, Adam
Clinton, Henry (Sir)
Freeborn, Capt.
Wattles, Capt.
Whittlesey, Capt.
Swan, John (Capt.)
Welden, Capt.
Starkweather, Joseph
Baker, Palfrey
Brown, Jonathan
King, Capt.
Flynn, Edward
Smith, Joseph (Capt.)
Mellally, Michael (Capt.)
Fosdick, Nicoll (Capt.)
Deming, Capt.
Hopkins, Ezek (Capt.)
Havens, William (Capt.)
Hinman, Elisha (Capt.)
Mumford, Thomas

Richards, Peter (Capt.)
Brooks, David (Capt.)
Champlain, Lodowick (Capt.)
Hambleton, Capt.
Newman, Charles

Warrner, Capt.
Adams, William
Robinson, William
Olmsted, Capt.
Lord, Jabez (Capt.)
Saltonstall, Nathaniel (Capt.)

Hart, Capt.
Scovil, Capt.
Dart, Elisha (Capt.)
Smedley, Samuel (Capt.)

Revolutionary War
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