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Local Records
1804
November 8. — The brig William and Mary, Capt. Bryson, of So. Shields, soon after leaving the Tees, had a smart engagement with a lugger privateer, which lasted nearly 3 hours, when the brig was obliged to strike. They took the owner, master, and all the people, out of her, except a man and a boy, and put 11 Frenchmen on board. The man (who perceived the brig sinking from a shot between wind and water) and 2 Frenchmen saved themselves in a small boat ; the brig, with the boy and 9 Frenchmen, sunk about 10 minutes after the boat left her. On the next day, the privateer captured 7 loaded colliers and 2 east countrymen, within a short distance of Sunderland. [LRSN]
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- LRSN — Local Records of Stockton and the Neighbourhood by Thomas Richmond. Published in one volume in 1868.
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