2 10 48 https://commerceofthecochineal.com/files/original/8b2609179d60ea50623340ec2bc21a77.jpg fe603b0d3dfd89bf00fe66f350014c3d Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Piracy of the Cochineal Subject The topic of the resource Piracy Description An account of the resource A Description of how the Cochineal was stolen by pirates Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Transcription Any written text transcribed from a sound Charlestown, South-Carolina, July 27. The Measures for some time part purified by his Excellency Sir Jeffery Amherst, in regard to the exportation of provisions, &c. from the Northern Colonies have had the best effects; for, at Hispaniola and other places, the French are now reduced to such straits, that they can hardly submit themselves, and are almost disabled from fitting out even their merchantmen, much more whole fleet of privateers as heretofore. The same measures too may be said to contribute to the more easy or early reduction of the Havannah; and would certainly have prevented our trade being annoyed by privateers from St. Augustine, had orders been there in due time to grant commissions. August 6. On Sunday arrived here Capt. Hall in 9 weeks from Gibraltar; he left 20 ships of the line besides frigates, under the command of Adm Saunders and Commodore Brett. This fleet had made no attempt on Cadiz, but whenever the wind blew easterly they cruized in the Gut, to prevent the junction of the combined fleet of French from Toulon and Spanish at Carthagena, with that at Cadiz; and when westerly, it returned to Gibraltar. The Gut was [illegable] by a number of small Spanish privateers, which did considerable hurt to the British trade in those seas. We learn from Jamaica that Commodore Forrest was gone for England: That a man of war on that station, and a privateer, had cut out of the bay or river Dolce, the annual ship that loads there for Old Spain with Guatemala indigo, cochineal, and money, which tho at that time only one third loaded, is valued at 35,000 l. sterling. And that the Bay of Mexico swarmed with English privateers, suppos'd no less than 30. There a cat present only 5 topsail vessels in our harbour, and a few coasting sloops and schooers; & 20,000 barrels of our last year's crop of rice are supposed to be still in province unfold. The prospect of a prodigious crop still continues; few think we shall make less than 150,000 barrles, unless a hurricane reduce it. Text Any textual data included in the document Charlestown, South-Carolina, July 27. The Measures for some time part purified by his Excellency Sir Jeffery Amherst, in regard to the exportation of provisions, &c. from the Northern Colonies have had the best effects; for, at Hispaniola and other places, the French are now reduced to such straits, that they can hardly submit themselves, and are almost disabled from fitting out even their merchantmen, much more whole fleet of privateers as heretofore. The same measures too may be said to contribute to the more easy or early reduction of the Havannah; and would certainly have prevented our trade being annoyed by privateers from St. Augustine, had orders been there in due time to grant commissions. August 6. On Sunday arrived here Capt. Hall in 9 weeks from Gibraltar; he left 20 ships of the line besides frigates, under the command of Adm Saunders and Commodore Brett. This fleet had made no attempt on Cadiz, but whenever the wind blew easterly they cruized in the Gut, to prevent the junction of the combined fleet of French from Toulon and Spanish at Carthagena, with that at Cadiz; and when westerly, it returned to Gibraltar. The Gut was [illegable] by a number of small Spanish privateers, which did considerable hurt to the British trade in those seas. We learn from Jamaica that Commodore Forrest was gone for England: That a man of war on that station, and a privateer, had cut out of the bay or river Dolce, the annual ship that loads there for Old Spain with Guatemala indigo, cochineal, and money, which tho at that time only one third loaded, is valued at 35,000 l. sterling. And that the Bay of Mexico swarmed with English privateers, suppos'd no less than 30. There are at present only 5 topsail vessels in our harbour, and a few coasting sloops and schooners; & 20,000 barrels of our last year's crop of rice are supposed to be still in province unfold. The prospect of a prodigious crop still continues; few think we shall make less than 150,000 barrels, unless a hurricane reduce it. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Charlestown, South Carolina Subject The topic of the resource Piracy Description An account of the resource Article published in an American newspaper describing a large amount of the English privateers in the Bay of Mexico in hopes of stealing the cochineal. Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived The Boston News-Letter and New-England Chronicle, Boston, Massachusettes, pg. 1. Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource September 2, 1762 Type The nature or genre of the resource Newspaper Article Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Readex: America's Historical Newspapers. https://infoweb-newsbank-com.lib-proxy.fullerton.edu/apps/readex/doc?p=EANX&docref=image/v2:1036CD221971FE08@EANX-105669FD88216F52@2364862-105669FD90BEDCA1@0-105669FE0E977072@Charlestown%2C+South-Carolina%2C+July+27. https://commerceofthecochineal.com/files/original/464161e981675f15bb105594ecf848ee.jpg 6fd468258e23efc3508a28c677597bf1 https://commerceofthecochineal.com/files/original/9c77e1a44e5f7bb281348dc615aa731f.jpg 348f72e6890aa6c6056629472e8cc7cf Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Coccinella, and Coccus Subject The topic of the resource Cochineal Description An account of the resource Image of cactus with cochineal Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Cochineal cactus (Nopalea cochenillifera) with insects that feed on it, including th cochineal insect (Dactylopius coccus). Coloured etching by J. Pass, c. 1801, after J. Ihle. Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Credit: Wellcome Collection. CC BY. https://wellcomecollection.org/works/afdz9f99 Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1801 Type The nature or genre of the resource Image https://commerceofthecochineal.com/files/original/1ddbec1d7d1c33ffcb93b55cb1cd431d.jpg 8ee2fdc2396096e590636b23e9ec7611 https://commerceofthecochineal.com/files/original/bdb79df60e3431c81cd802ad3ce03027.jpg ca74f71371d7d2cfbd2b4f041369f00a https://commerceofthecochineal.com/files/original/e3544a0ad336f5f19b79298f6b2370db.jpg 7d1c122fd748b8d91edf28c46a07d612 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Plantations Subject The topic of the resource Plantations of the Cochineal Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Text Any textual data included in the document To the Right Honorable Lord Hobart, Governor in Council, &c. &c. &c. My Lord, It is with the greatest pleasure I now forward pieces of Cassimere cloth and Flannel, dyed with the cochineal reared here, which in brightness and colour equal the best scarlets; and having thus established the goodness of the dye, I have also much pleasure in acquainting your Lordship, that in comparing it with the Granafina, I have had similar success, in finding that it has more colouring matter than the Sylvester cochineal, imported into Europe from Mexico, is said to possess. What I first stated as its value, was from the only book I had at the time that spoke to that point, Thierry de Menonville; but being anxious to ascertain this by experiment, I since learned from the latest publication here on dying, that four times the quantity of Sylvester, to that of Granafina was required; the flannel was dyed in this proportion, but a part of the colouring matter remained in the water. That our cochineal is much more valuable the accompanying specimens will shew, No. 1, being dyed with the best Granafina to be purchased here, and for which I paid one Pagoda an ounce, and No. 2, dyed with that produced here equal in quantity to three times that of the other—in every other respect the same additions made, familiar vessels used, and equal time in the process, No. 2, both in colour and brightness is superior to No. 1, and when the greater specific gravity of our cochineal is also taken into account, not having had time to be equally dry with the other, and that the attention I would now use for the preparation of the Insect and separation of their coverings &c. had not been paid, there can be little difficulty in saying, from the experiments I have made, that it is at half the value of the Granafina, and that its superior durability of colour may make it only one third less, the price that Thierry de Menonville asserts it always bears in Mexico, and which I am also told is its value in Europe. ... I am, My Lord, &c. Andrew Berry, Superintendant of the Hon . Company' s Nopalry Fort St. George, 8th December, 1797. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Communications Subject The topic of the resource Plantations Description An account of the resource An extract of a letter describing the success of the plantations in India. Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Anderson, James. Communications From October the 1st, until the 12th of December [...] (Madras: Bone & Cooper, 1795): 33-35. Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Internet Archive. https://archive.org/details/b30365466 Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource December 8, 1795 Type The nature or genre of the resource Letter https://commerceofthecochineal.com/files/original/8556d0a6a6b3daa0cf778289b3c1edc7.pdf 06d9b9ea9c2764c1cc0545c5a4274242 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource International Trade Subject The topic of the resource International Trade Description An account of the resource International Trade of cochineal Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Text Any textual data included in the document Ebner. Beardsley, Has just imported from London and Bristol; A fifth, and general Assortment of Drugs, Medicines, Painters, and Dyers Colours; Which are for Sale, at the Sign of the Unicorn and Mortar, a [few?] Rods below Mr, Mules's Tavern. Among which are, White Lead, Allum, Copperas, Verdigrise, Oil of Vitriol, Spanish Brown, powdered, in Kegs of 100 lb. Prussian Blue, Kings-yellow, Umber, Ivory-black, Cochineal, [Saltseperre?] &c. &c. He has also for Sale, Read Lead, Yello Ochre, Red Ochre, Spirits of Turpentine, &c. &c. He pays Cash for Beeswax, and all Kinds of Shipping Furs, Such as Red Foxes, Otters, Minks, [Martins?], [Tishers?], Bears, &c. New- Haven, Nov. 26th 1788 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Ebner. Beardsley. Subject The topic of the resource International Trade Description An account of the resource An advertisement published in an American newspaper describing the international trade of the Cochineal. Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Litchfield Monitor (Litchfield, Connecticut) 5, no. 216, pg. 4. Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Readex: America's Historical Newspapers. https://infoweb-newsbank-com.lib-proxy.fullerton.edu/apps/readex/doc?p=EANX&docref=image/v2:109C9F607B33F9B0@EANX-10A235D7C99BF218@2374540-10A235D84BE73208@3-10A235D9EDD89280@. Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource March 2, 1789 Type The nature or genre of the resource Newspaper Advertisement https://commerceofthecochineal.com/files/original/a72e53019693c3eb3ee17a470645db76.pdf 3f0839317f1aa55464ec335418a00915 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource International Trade Subject The topic of the resource International Trade Description An account of the resource International Trade of cochineal Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Text Any textual data included in the document Edinburgh, Oct. 6. On Friday Capt. Fowler, of the Betty, of and for Frasersburgh, just arrived from Bergen with wood, came to the Custom-house and reported, that there was at Bergen a large French snow privateer, the Comtesse de la Sicur of Dunkirk, Charles Francis Robert Commander, mounting twenty guns twelve pounders on one deck, and men in proportion, who had taken and brought into Bergen two Whitehaven vessels from Riga, and one Newcastle ship bound for Chester. And that at the same time, two French West-Indiamen from St. Domingo came to Bergen, and unloaded their cargoes of indigo, sugar, cotton, cochineal, &c. There were on board one of these ships, 50 Spaniards, whom the French Consul obliges to enter on board the said privateer, which, it was said, designs to cruize between Crossford and Nacs of Norway, to intercept our east-country trade. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Edinburgh. Oct 6. Subject The topic of the resource International Trade Description An account of the resource Article origination in Edinburgh published in an American newspaper describing the international trade of the Cochineal. Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived New-York Gazette, or Weekly Post-Boy (New York, New York), no. 781, pg. 2 Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Readex: America's Historical Newspapers. https://infoweb-newsbank-com.lib-proxy.fullerton.edu/apps/readex/doc?p=EANX&docref=image/v2:10D34AE6B0969558@EANX-10DAAEDF73052458@2363165-10DAAEDFBAA0AEA8@1-10DAAEE0DD1B5EC8@Edinburgh%2C+Oct.+6 Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource January 9, 1758 Type The nature or genre of the resource Newspaper Article https://commerceofthecochineal.com/files/original/43e1711ac8991f8c4f914b058afb61a1.jpg 79f9fe7e1377e98369094364755068da Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource International Trade Subject The topic of the resource International Trade Description An account of the resource International Trade of cochineal Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Text Any textual data included in the document England. London, July 16. The Spaniards have, on the rich and extensive continent of South America, more territory than they can settle, manage, know what to do with; the Portuguese possessions in the Brazile are far more valuable than the famous thirteen northern colonies; the Dutch have to [stowing?] of Surinam, a part of Guiana, which was indeed seded to them by the English for New York. And the French have a considerable part of Guiana, which, though very much undervalued hitherto at a colony, is a very fertile country, and of much greater extent than the whole island of St. Domingo. The French military are become more [fertole?] than ever of the importance of that settlement, they sent out a few years ago some expert surveyors to examine it to the state of the country and the settlers; those gentlemen have reported that no country can be more fertile than Guiana, that it produces sugar, coffee, cotton, indigo, and every article known in the West Indian [?], besides many other productions peculiar to its [?]. that moreover, the crops are much superior to those of the [Antilies] and Carribean Islands in the West Indias, as well in quantity as quality, that the valuable [tumbers?] on the banks of navigable rivers after greatest [?] to new settlers; it is said they have [Cayese?], and other parts if Guiana as have harbour for [couping?] as any on that continent; and that the navigation to and from Europe is [fater?] and [shorter?] than that of the islands; with the prospect of a most beneficial trade with the Spaniards and Portuguese on the continent, of which the Dutch at Surinam and [Curcua?] have long lasted the sweets, supplying them with slaves and goods, and taking in return gold, silver, cocoa, vanilla, Jersun's bark, cochineal, and other valuable commodities. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource England Subject The topic of the resource International Trade Description An account of the resource An extract of an article origination in London published in an American newspaper describing the international trade of the Cochineal Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Massachusetts Gazette (Boston, Massachusetts) VII, no. 475, pg. 2. Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Readex: America's Historical Newspapers. https://infoweb-newsbank-com.lib-proxy.fullerton.edu/apps/readex/doc?p=EANX&docref=image/v2:1080E81BCACD03C0@EANX-108557F2271AFC80@2374390-108557F255DCC570@1-108557F2DA7A9850@England.+London%2C+July+16. Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource October 3, 1788 Type The nature or genre of the resource Newspaper Article https://commerceofthecochineal.com/files/original/42004da5a098a44c84193a487ed6ef30.jpg e86b912c8409ad43752297b4bad68bb7 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource International Trade Subject The topic of the resource International Trade Description An account of the resource International Trade of cochineal Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Text Any textual data included in the document England. London, February 17. According to the account Taken of the Importations into Spain, from America, from the year 1775 to 1787, there have, we find, been imported 474,358,663 piastres, exclusive of the ingots, wrought silver, diamonds, and some sums of money that have been smuggled, which exceed one third of the above sum. The value of the merchandise imported during the course of those years in cocoa, cochineal, tobacco, indigo, &c. amounts to 241, 000, 474 livres; so that if we add the sugar, and 880,000,000 piastre coined at Mexico, some idea may be formed of the riches of those establishments. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource England. Subject The topic of the resource International Trade Description An account of the resource Article origination in London published in an American newspaper describing the international trade of the Cochineal. Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Massachusetts Spy (Worcester, Massachusetts), no. 891, pg. 3 Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Readex: America's Historical Newspapers. https://infoweb-newsbank-com.lib-proxy.fullerton.edu/apps/readex/doc?p=EANX&docref=image/v2:10284A66F6BC7768@EANX-102F3EAA5EC488B9@2374963-102F3EAC0D0BB3C6@2-102F3EAD0AC75FEA@England. Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource April 29, 1790 Type The nature or genre of the resource Newspaper Article https://commerceofthecochineal.com/files/original/33f127078814f7f7a51aa9fa8139f6df.jpg c1208bb87db67427a79c9338193419f0 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Piracy of the Cochineal Subject The topic of the resource Piracy Description An account of the resource A Description of how the Cochineal was stolen by pirates Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Transcription Any written text transcribed from a sound European Intelligence London, May 13. We hear the packet for East Flordia, which on account of the dangerous bar at St. Augustine, was ordered to touch at Carolina and Georgia, will soon be appointed to land her dispatches, letters, &c. at the Musketo harbour, where dispositions are now taking to build a new town. May 17. Several large ships are now fitting up in the river to import timber and plank form North-America. May 21. They write from Jamaica that four Dutch sloops, with cargoes of cochineal, indigo, logwood, and silver have been seized as illicit traders on the Spanish Main, and carried into Campeachy. They write from Scotland, that several foreign agents have appeared in the northern parts of that kingdom, to enlist Highlanders into the service of his Prussian Majesty. May 24. It is said that the affair of Mr. Almon and certain other proceedings now depending in the courts of Westminster, will soon be dropt, as a prelude to that happy unanimity expected to result from a change in the political system so much talked of at the other end of town. May 25. The following promotions are now talked of, viz. Duke of York to be Lord High Admiral; Lord Temple, Privy-Seal, and the Duke of Marlborough, to have the vacant Garter. May 26. This day his Majesty went in state to the House of Peers, and gave the royal assent to the following bills, viz. The bill to alter the duties on gum senega, to confine the import to Great-Britain; and to lay a duty on the exportation thereof. The bill for vesting the fort of Senegal, with its dependencies, in the crown. The bill to prohibit the importation of foreign manufactured silk stockings, gloves, and mits. The bill to prevent the inconveniencies arising from the present method of issuing note and bills in Scotland. The bill to enlarge the fund for paying the Judges salaries. And also to several other publick and private bills. A new writ is issued out for electing a member for Harwich, in the toom of the Right Hon. Charles Townshend, appointed Paymaster-General of his Majesty's forces in the room of Lord Holland. Likewise a new writ for the burghs of Glasgow, &c. in the room of Lord Frederick Campbell, appointed Keeper of the Privy-Seal of Scotland, in the room of the Hon. James Stuart Mackenzie, brother to the Earl of Bute. The Right Hon. Lord Littleton is now confidently talked of to succeed to the office of Chancellor of the Exchequer. Text Any textual data included in the document European Intelligence London, May 13. We hear the packet for East Florida, which on account of the dangerous bar at St. Augustine, was ordered to touch at Carolina and Georgia, will soon be appointed to land her dispatches, letters, &c. at the Musketo harbour, where dispositions are now taking to build a new town. May 17. Several large ships are now fitting up in the river to import timber and plank form North-America. May 21. They write from Jamaica that four Dutch sloops, with cargoes of cochineal, indigo, logwood, and silver have been seized as illicit traders on the Spanish Main, and carried into Campeachy. They write from Scotland, that several foreign agents have appeared in the northern parts of that kingdom, to enlist Highlanders into the service of his Prussian Majesty. May 24. It is said that the affair of Mr. Almon and certain other proceedings now depending in the courts of Westminster, will soon be dropt, as a prelude to that happy unanimity expected to result from a change in the political system so much talked of at the other end of town. May 25. The following promotions are now talked of, viz. Duke of York to be Lord High Admiral; Lord Temple, Privy-Seal, and the Duke of Marlborough, to have the vacant Garter. May 26. This day his Majesty went in state to the House of Peers, and gave the royal assent to the following bills, viz. The bill to alter the duties on gum senega, to confine the import to Great-Britain; and to lay a duty on the exportation thereof. The bill for vesting the fort of Senegal, with its dependencies, in the crown. The bill to prohibit the importation of foreign manufactured silk stockings, gloves, and mits. The bill to prevent the inconveniencies arising from the present method of issuing note and bills in Scotland. The bill to enlarge the fund for paying the Judges salaries. And also to several other publick and private bills. A new writ is issued out for electing a member for Harwich, in the toom of the Right Hon. Charles Townshend, appointed Paymaster-General of his Majesty's forces in the room of Lord Holland. Likewise a new writ for the burghs of Glasgow, &c. in the room of Lord Frederick Campbell, appointed Keeper of the Privy-Seal of Scotland, in the room of the Hon. James Stuart Mackenzie, brother to the Earl of Bute. The Right Hon. Lord Littleton is now confidently talked of to succeed to the office of Chancellor of the Exchequer. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource European Intelligence Subject The topic of the resource Piracy Description An account of the resource Article origination in London published in an American newspaper describing how the Spanish stopped the piracy of the cochineal. 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For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Piracy of the Cochineal Subject The topic of the resource Piracy Description An account of the resource A Description of how the Cochineal was stolen by pirates Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Text Any textual data included in the document Extract of a Letter from Albany, August 14, 1758 "Major Rogers and the Enemy, the 8th Inst. have had a Brush near Fort Anne, near the Wood-Creek. --- All that we know of the Affair, is, That the Enemy, about 150 Indians and 300 Canadians; designed to cut off our Escort between Saraghtoga and Fort-Edward; but were met by Rogers, with about 600 (he ought to have been 750 strong, but some of the Provincials feeling poorly, return'd to Camp) who received the first Fire, which kill'd and wounded several of his Men. The Engagement lasted about 2 hours. We have had killed our own Men, some say 50, others 80. The French 60 or 70 at least. We took two Prisoners; who tell the Enemy lost several Persons of Note; particularly, Mons. Morrier, one of the principal Directors of Indian Affairs; -- A Person noted for going among the Indian Settlements, and bringing them a great Distance to War, he was called the Indian General. Rogers pursued the Enemy two Miles, but could not come up with them. The next Day he buried his Dead, and scalped the Enemy; Next Port it is probable I may be able to send you further Particulars of this Affair. Putnam's Men would not stand by him, he is missing. If the Provincials would have behaved as well as their Officers, in all probability the whole Party would have been destroyed; but its impossible for the Officers to make the Provincials obey Commands, owing to which the Enemy often escape. You no doubt have heard how Col. Hart a New Hampshire Colonel behaved the 28th Ult. who was sent from Fort-Edward with 250 Men, on hearing the Firing when the Enemy cut off our Teams; had he join Capt. Bourbank who was sent 240 Men from the Post at Halfway Brook, and who fired upon the Enemy, the wile of the Enemy's Party must have been cut off; for the most Part of the Indians were drunk; but so far was he from joining Bourbank, tho' he sent four different Messengers to desire Hart to come up with his Party, that he even would not suffer 50 regulars who he had under his Command and who were willing to go, but ordered them to bury the Dead. This Hart is now in Confinement, and to be tried by Court-Martial, and hope he will meet with his Deserty." Since the above, we have Letters by Yesterday's Post which say, That Roger's Party was 700, with Putnam in the Front; that they fell in on the 8th Inst. near Fort [illegible] with a Party of 170 Indians and 280 Canadians and Colony Troops. Our People were discovered by some of the Provincials firing at Pigeons; Roger's Party was then in an Indian File, who took up a long while before the Rear came up. A Scout has been out since from Half-Way [illegeable], to the Place of Action, and sound upwards of 100 dead Bodies, and believe their might be many more, but the Stench was so great they could not stand it. Rogers buried all his Dead. ---"The Enemy carried off Major Putnam, Lieutenant Tracy, and 2 Provincials. The Regulars Officers that were with Rogers gave him a very good Character, and say he behaved extremely well. A Flag of Truce came to the Camp at Lake George the [12th?], and we learn Vaudrevil will agree to an Exchange of Prisoners, Major Putnam, &c. are at Tieonderoga. Rogers's Party consisted of 65 Regular Soldiers Volunteers, and 2 Officers, 80 light armed Infantry, and 80 Rangers, the rest were made up of Provincials. Tuesday, last returned from a Cruize the Privateer ship [illegable] Francis [Kossler? Koffler?], Commander, having met with no other [illegable] has been heretofore mentioned. On Friday the Privateer ship Roayl Hunter, James Jauncey, Commander, returned from a Cruize, and brought in with him a Dutch ship he seized at Sea the 23rd of July last, as she was on her Passage from Rotterdam to Cape Francois. Capt. Jauncey also brought in with him a French Polaccah, which he took the 24th of July, while in Consort with Captain Deveraux, in the St. George of this Place She is called La Marie, Mons. Jean Baptiste Freziet, Master, bound for Marseilles to Cape Francois, and loaded with Wine, Oil, Flour, Soap, Candles, Fruit, dry Goods, &c. On the 28th of July, the Royal Hunter took another Polaccah, bound from and to the same Place with the other, and is loaded with the like Commodities, She was taken likewise in Consort with the St. George an in Company with the Captains Wanton, Hawkins, and Chaloner, in 3 Privateers of Rhode-Island;----- We hear the St. George, and one Rhode Island Brig are bringing her in to this Port, as they were left off the Hook, a few Days ago. The same Day the Privateer sloop Harlequin Capt. Wright, returned from an eight Months Cruize; but brought in no Prize with her: She has however, had some small Concerns, which have already been inserted. On Saturday returned from a Cruize, the Privateer sloop Tyger, Alexander McDougal, Commander. From the Produce of the ship Staat Rotterdam, she carried into St. Kitts, and of several Vessels the ransom'd, we hear she has made a good Cruize for all concerned. Saturday Evening last a French Settee, under the Command of Capt. Holmes was sent in here by the Privateer Snoe Dreadnought, Willet Taylor, Commander. She is called the Virgin Lagare, Mons. John Rogue Master, was bound from Matineco to Old France, and was taked the 29th of July last, in Lat. 32, 25 Long. 54. She has on board 188 Hogsheads of Sugar, 15,000 Weight of Coccoa, besides a Quantity of Coffee, Indigo, Cochineal, &c. She had a Mail on Board, which she sunk before she struck; and gave an Account to the Captors, that they daily expected at Martinero, a French Fleet of one hundred and odd Sail, under Convoy of seven Men of War. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Extract of a Letter from Albany, August 14, 1758 Subject The topic of the resource Piracy Description An account of the resource A letter published an American newspaper, which was a part of a larger letter, describing the success privateering of the cochineal. Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived The New York Gazette or The Weekly Post-Boy, New York, New York pg. 3 Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Readex: America's Historical Newspapers. https://infoweb-newsbank-com.lib-proxy.fullerton.edu/apps/readex/doc?p=EANX&docref=image/v2:10D34AE6B0969558@EANX-10DAADDC6481D728@2363389-10DAADDCDDBE4200@2-10DAADDE91CA2748@Extract+of+a+Letter+from+Albany%2C+August+14%2C+1758. Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource August 21, 1758 Type The nature or genre of the resource Newspaper Article https://commerceofthecochineal.com/files/original/f51dfa2db1e64f190c6e2db3d9fcb318.jpg dbdd31a3df132554475b5103f7b54e5a Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource International Trade Subject The topic of the resource International Trade Description An account of the resource International Trade of cochineal Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Text Any textual data included in the document Letters from Holland, which had just been received by the West-India fleet, mention, that the Dutch merchants have availed themselves prodigiously on account of the English prescribed trade with the Spanish American settlements; no less than seventy-two Spanish vessels, with cochineal, some logwood, Indigo, and silver having arrived at Curacoa, [fifty? forty?]-four at [Eustatia?], and thirty at Suriname, in the course of last year, in order to purchase European goods at cheaper rates than can be sold of their own merchants, to whom the register ships and cargoes are annually [consigned?], It is added, the Danish Island of St. Thomas has also a considerable share of this lucrative trade. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Extract of a Letter from Copenhagen, (Denmark.) Subject The topic of the resource International Trade Description An account of the resource An extract of an article published in an American Newspaper concerning international trade of the Cochineal. Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived The New-York Gazette, issue 133, pg. 4 Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available https://infoweb-newsbank-com.lib-proxy.fullerton.edu/apps/readex/doc?p=EANX&t=pubname%3A10D348D9B0AD3268%21New-York%2BGazette/year%3A1765%211765/mody%3A0422%210422&sort=YMD_date%3AA&fld-base-0=alltext&val-base-0=cochineal%20&docref=image/v2%3A10D348D9B0AD3268%40EANX-10D376D5D56BEEB8%402365825-10D376D62C4B85F8%403-10D376D74462A670%40Extract%2Bof%2Ba%2BLetter%2Bfrom%2BCopenhagen%252C%2B%2528Denmark%2529&firsthit=yes Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource April 22, 1765 Type The nature or genre of the resource Newspaper Article