Articles of Agreement by Crew of the Massachusetts Schooner Run Fast, October 24, 1776

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We the Subscribers do Acknoledge to have Shipt ourselves, on Board the Schooner Run Fast [Nehemiah] Somes Master, to Proceed in Said Schooner from Boston to Virginia & Maryland, & back again: to do our duty on Board & on Shore during said Voyage, For such monthly wages & Priviledge & is sett Against our Names, to have One months pay before sailing the Remainder to be paid at the Discharge of said Schooner in Boston ー as Witness our hands this Twenty fourth day of Octobr 1776ー

1776
Octo 27

I Aaron Riggs Am Content as Mate for four Pounds Sixteen Shills P mo & Forty Bushells Privelidge
Recd amonths pay Aaron Riggs Juner

1776
Octo 21

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I Jepter	X	Loyd ー Am Content as Seaman for Four pounds
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Ten Shills P mo & twenty Bush Privelidge

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Recd a Months Pay, Jepter	X	Loyd
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1776
Octo 23.

I Phelep MrCouil Am Content as Seaman for Four pounds Ten Shills P mo & Twenty Bushs PrivelidgeRecd amonths pay Philip McCouif

1776
Octo 27.

I Samuel Whorff Am Content as Seaman four four pounds Ten Shills P mo & forty Bushs Privelidge
Recd a months pay Samuel Whorff

[Endorsed] Capt N. Somes Shiping paper 1 Voyage Oct 1776

1. Andre de Coppet Collection of American Historical Manuscripts, John Cushing and Samuel White of Boston, Papers relating to the ship Run Fast, PUL.

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Date

1776 October 24

Volume

Volume 6

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American Theatre from September 1, 1776, to October 31, 1776