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Despite these difficulties and war with Spain and France, privateers in Nassau seized enemy ships and the whole economy shared in prize money from the vessels. In fact, so many
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Memoirs of Peter Henry Bruce, a military officer in the services of
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at the entrance to Nassau
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Death: "At Cape Coast Castle in Africa, Jeremiah Tinker Esq., Governor of the said Fort: The
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difficult to eradicate privateering or entice new settlers as the cost of living was high and the currency was in a poor state. Most of the difficulties he encountered he tended to blame on the people he governed, rather than his own ability to govern.
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Tinker had joined the
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John Tinker was born and baptised on 30 July 1700 to parents
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were at the head of a procession of 160 Masons in full regalia through the streets led by a sword bearer and which was accompanied by peals of bells and the firing of cannons from a nearby ship.
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The
Historical Register: containing an impartial relation of all transactions foreign and domestic: for the year 1738. Volume 23 Treasury Books and Papers - August 1739, Volume 4 pp259-266
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suggested locating a military base at Darien on the
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which traded principally in gold and slaves. In 1724 he was joined on the Gold Coast by his brother Jeremiah who was based close by at Whydah and also by
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was considering ways to prevent the Spanish from exporting from their silver mines in Peru and Mexico, both Tinker and his father-in-law
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a senior commissioner at the Board of Trade and he received a generous marriage settlement. They had two sons, Captain
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