, 1757._[1]

[Footnote 1: From the _Boston News-Letter_ of May 19, 1757.]

By a Master of a Vessel lately arrived from Hispaniola, we are
inform'd, that on the 13th of April there lay at Port of Prince[2] a
Brig of about 120 Tons, mounting 14 Carriage Guns, and 200 Men, also a
Sloop about 70 Tons, 8 Carriage Guns and 100 Men, both intended in
Consort (as it was there said) for the Coast of New-York and
thereabouts. The Brig is Rhode-Island built, black sides, with a white
Bottom, the Sloop is painted very gay, as with red, yellow, black and
green. He heard likewise that at another Port in the said Island,
there was fitting out a Snow (which had been lately a Packet taken
from the English) to mount 16 Carriage Guns, and to be commanded by
one Palanqui (a very noted Commander) to come on the same Coast.

[Footnote 2: Port au Prince, on the west coast, the present capital of
Haiti.]

We hear from Bristol, in Rhode-Island Government, that Capt.
Mark-Anthony De Wolfe[3] in a Privateer Sloop of 50 Tuns, with 40
Hands and 6 Guns, belonging to Warren, sail'd from thence the 24th of
April, and put into Newport, from whence she sail'd three Days after;
and on the 4th of this Instant May, to the Northward of Bermudas, took
a French Snow of 150 Tons, with 18 Men, who made but little
Resistance, having but 2 Guns, and no one killed or wounded on either
side: The Privateer return'd with her Prize to Bristol the 15th,
having finished this Cruize in 3 Weeks to an Hour. The Cargo of the
Snow consists of 200 Hogsheads of Sugar, a Quantity of Coffee, Indigo,
Elephants-Teeth, Logwood, etc. and was bound from St. Domingo for
Old-France.

[Footnote 3: He was brother-in-law of Captain Simeon Potter, and
sailed with him, as clerk, on the _Prince Charles of Lorraine_ (see
docs. nos. 176, 177) in 1745. His son, James De Wolf, United States
senator 1821-1825, was one of the most successful of owners of
privateers; one of his vessels, the _Yankee_, captured or destroyed
five million dollars' worth of British property during the war of
1812. Munro, _Tales of an Old Sea Port_, pp. 214-223.]

Yesterday the Privateer Ship _Hertford_, commanded by Capt. Thomas
Lewis, lately fitted out from this Place, brought into our Harbour a
valuable French Prize, a Ship of about 240 Tuns, which he took about
three Weeks ago, to the Southward of Bermudas in Lat. 29: She was
bound from Porto Prince in Hispaniola to old France; her Cargo is said
to consist of