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Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… I had lost my best bower anchor and great part of the cable on the former voyage, the Governor being then on board … he has taken a grudge against me for asking for anchor and cable and for conveniences for sick men, and also for giving … tell you how I was abused when I asked for an anchor and cable. Captain Fairfax too is daily threatened to have his …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… that almost everywhere there is fifty fathom waterwithin a cable's length of the shoar; so I brought to at a distance, …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… of Anquilla, being also at anchor there. He then cut his cable and ran his own sloop on shore, and escaped them. They …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… his guns on the ship, at seven in the evening I cut my cable and made sail. The forts at once opened fire, which I …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… he took the Spanish ship, and that they seized them to the cable, cut the anchor from the bow and let them all run …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… and Sarah drove, and having overlayd it, cut my stream cable, wch. forced me to sea. And a strong northern current … March 12. Yesterday afternoon I brought a spring to my cable, and heaving my broadside to the shoar, fired upon the …