Extract from the Gazette, 1744
Printed in The Pennsylvania Gazette, August 30, 1744.

’Tis computed that there are and will be before Winter 113 Sail of Privateers at Sea, from the British American Colonies; most of them stout Vessels and abundantly well mann’d. A Naval Force, equal (some say) to that of the Crown of Great-Britain in the Time of Queen Elizabeth.

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