Now fitted for the Sea

And ready to proceed on a Cruise the Privateer Sloop Satisfaction, a well built Vessel about Ninety five Tons burthen mounting 14 Carriage Guns 12 Swivels small Arms &c. she is a Prime sailor, & has onboard every Convenience and Accomodation, suited to a Vessel of her dimensions. she is to be commanded by Capt John Wheelwright, and to be priviledged as follows ————— Vizt

The whole Crew to draw One half of all Prizes
Out of which the Captain will draw 8 Shares

Five Shares to remain dead, and to be disposed of by the Captain to those Seamen, who in his Judgment shall have the best title thereto by their extraordinary merit & exertion, and each man that may loose a leg or an arm shall receive from the Prize before any division, Two hundred dollars.

We therefore the subscribers do hereby severally engage & inlist ourselves as Seamen & Mariners in the Capacity set against our Names respectively onboard the aforesaid armed Sloop Satisfaction, under the Command of the said John Wheelwright, to cruise on the Enemies of the United States of America & their Property, and for the defence & protection of the Sea Coast and Navigation of said States, & we do hereby severally promise and engage to serve faithfully in our respective Capacities onboard the said armed Sloop Satisfaction, & her Boats, and onboard any such Vesseli or Vessels as she may make Prizes of during our Continuance in the service aforesaid which shall be from the date of this Instrument for and during Six Months, and we do hereby oblige our selves to submit to all such Orders, Rules and Regulations, as are, or may be made for the Government of the Navy of the United States, and faithfully to observe & obey all such Commands, as we shall from time to time receive from our superior Officers, onboard of or belonging to said Sloop Satisfaction during our Continuance in the service as aforesaid, and we do further engage and agree that if we shall at any time during our Continuance in said service be found guilty of Mutiny, or aiding or encouraging it in others onboard said Sloop, or shall be guilty of a Breach in the foregoing Articles in any respect whatever, that the whole of our Share or proportion in and to any prize or prizes, that may be taken in said Cruise, or the monies arising therefrom, shall be and remain forfeited to the use of the rest of the Crew to be divided between them according to their respective proportions, and Such as shall be found guilty of embezelling any of the goods, wares or merchandizes, or effects taken onboard any prize, shall forfeit four fold of the value of said goods &c. so embezelled to the use of the Owners and Crew of the said Sloop Satisfaction, and We do hereby engage and promise not to dispose of or sell more than One moiety of our Right title and claim to any prize or prizes that may be takenprevious to the taking of the [illegible] & do hereby constitute and appoint Samuel White, and John Cushing, both of Boston, Merchants, our Agents, Factors and Attorneys, for us and in our Names, to take possession of all prizes that shall be taken and brought in during our aforesaid Cruise, and in their own Names on our behalf to libel them in some Maratime Court proper to trv the same, and there on our behalf, to appear, plead and pursue the same to find Judgment and Condemnation, and to our use to receive such of the Profits arising from the sale of the said Prizes as our respective shares shall intitle us to.

In Testimony whereof we have hereunto affixed our,Names and Capacities this Twenty Six[th] day of April in the Year of Our Lord One thousand seven hundred and seventy seven ー And further, that Each prize master who may take Charge of a Prize shall Receive one full Share more —

That Each Officer & man shall have a month's pay Allow'd them Agreeable to the Continental pay, & if any Accident shod happen to Officers or men such Pensions or Allowance shall be made them, as is allowed to Officers & men in the Continental Service.