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    <mods:namePart>Engs, William</mods:namePart>
    <mods:namePart type="date">active 1741-1756</mods:namePart>
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      <mods:placeTerm type="text">Newport, R.I</mods:placeTerm>
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  <mods:note>Title supplied by cataloguer.</mods:note>
  <mods:note>Manuscript account and memorandum book of a German-born Rhode Island mariner, merchants' agent and teacher of navigation. The entries date from 1744 to 1756 and are in no particular order. Includes Engs' service as mate on the privateer schooner Fame in 1745-1746, where he participated in the Louisbourg expedition. Many entries are for financial transactions with various Rhode Islanders, mostly based in Newport.</mods:note>
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    <mods:geographic>Rhode Island</mods:geographic>
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    <mods:topic>Merchant mariners</mods:topic>
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    <mods:geographic>Louisbourg (N.S.)</mods:geographic>
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    <mods:temporal>Siege, 1745</mods:temporal>
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    <mods:geographic>Nova Scotia</mods:geographic>
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    <mods:temporal>1713-1763</mods:temporal>
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    <mods:geographic>Canada</mods:geographic>
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    <mods:temporal>To 1763 (New France)</mods:temporal>
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    <mods:geographic>Rhode Island</mods:geographic>
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    <mods:temporal>Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775</mods:temporal>
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    <mods:topic>Imprint 1741.</mods:topic>
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    <mods:topic>Imprint 1756.</mods:topic>
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