Background - continued
16/4/1669 ... at noon Jonge Prins, Vlaardinge, Wyting, Barm given their letters [sailed 17/4]
17/4 ... arrives the flute Delffshaven, very greatly damaged, having fought in latitude 36o 5 North with a Turkish [Moroccan] pirate during 12 glasses,* and ... beaten her off [losing 8 killed, 8 died of wounds, 23 wounded]
22/4 ... four soldiers sent to Saldanhia Bay to take possession ... until the Serjeant Jeronimus Cruse shall have arrived to set up his posts at the upper and lower watering-places ...
24/4 ... orders by the Lords Proprietors dated December 19, 1668 that Saldanhia Bay be held in the possession of the Hon. Coy....
25/4 ... come from Patria ... the ships Wapen van der Goes and Loosduijnen ... the former sailed January 16 ... the latter December 14 last year from before Vlissingen with 140 head, of whom 10 must be given to the sea ... had called at the Duyns ...
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