Account of Expences Relating to Prizes of New York Navy Sloop Montgomery, Captain William Rogers, July 5, 1777

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An Account of the Expences of the [burnt] & Prizes taken at Long Island —
[New Haven]

1776 [1777]	To Cash gave to the Officers belonging to the Grayhound Ship of War² to Beare their Expences to New York	1 .. 4.. 0
June 16	To Cash gave the Gard for their Expences	2 .. 0 .. 0
	To Cash gave Jacob Willis for going to New York Express	1 . 10.. 0
	To Cash paid Jacob Willis for going to New York with a Waggen	2 .10 .. 0
	To Cash paid James Smith for going to New York do	2 .10.. 0
	To Cash paid Daniel Jones for piloting the [boat] over the Bay	1 .. 0.. 0
	To Cash paid an Indian Squaw for keeping a Negro man that died, taken in the Sloop Charlotty³	1 ..16.. 0
	To Cash paid Capt Strong for Vittiling the prisnors at Sundry times, & for finding Six men for a Gard, Wher we Could not Spare our men	20 .. 0 .. 0
		£32 .10 .. 0
	Ballance due to the State N York	7 .10 .. 0
	Cr	£40 .. 0 .. 0
	By Cash Recd of Joseph Hallet £40 .. 0 .. 0
	pay the above Accot
	Errors Excepted July 5: 1777 William Rogers

1. Andrew Elliot Papers, Sloop Montgomery Folder, NYSL. This document was damaged in the New York State Library fire.

2. Taken in Greyhound's prizes recaptured by Montgomery and brought into Fire Island Inlet on June 27, 1776. See Volume 5.

3. Charlotte, British transport sloop, carrying entrenching tools, chevaux de frise, etc., captured by Montgomery on July 5, 1776. See Volume 5.

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