Smuggling in the American Colonies At the Outbreak of the Revolution, With Special Reference to the West Indies Trade
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Its great extent is attested by the observations of the commanders of British war-vessels sent to investigate. At the time at which His Majesty's sloop, Viper, was at Monte Christi on Feb. 5, 1759, twenty-eight of the twenty-nine ships there were from the North American colonies. In May, 1761, a Captain Hinxman reported that, of fifty ves- sels in port, thirty -six were from North Amer- ica. 1 Governor Haldane of Jamaica made affidavits on June 9, 1759 that at times from one hundred to one hund...red and twenty North American vessels were at Monte Christi. 2 There could have been but one object back of 1 G. L. Beer, British Colonial Policy, 98, note 2, quoting from the Board of Trade Papers and Home Office Papers. 2 Ibid., 99, note 4. 54 SMUGGLING IN THE AMERICAN COLONIES the visits of all these vessels to this port at this particular time. British The objections raised by the British civil to Trade anc ^ military authorities, both before and after with French j^e Parliamentary Act of 1757, were natural and reasonable.
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