New London February 12. 1778 Received of Nathaniel Shaw Junr. thirty three hundred pounds Lawfull Money on Accott. of my Prize Money due for two Cruses in the Sloop American Revenue Under my Command—the Ballance to be paid as Soon as the Law Suit depending att Congress is Settled—1
Samuel Champlin
£3300..0..0—
DS, CtY, Nathaniel and Thomas Shaw Papers, packet 19, no. 27.
1. Brigantine Sally, Barry Hartwell, master, bound from London to Tobago, was captured by the Connecticut privateer American Revenue on 22 Jan. 1777. NDAR 8: 68. When Sally was condemned as a lawful prize by the North Carolina Admiralty Court at New Bern in late March 1777, her owner, Samuel Mifflin of Philadelphia, appealed to the Continental Congress. JCC 9: 1052. See also NDAR 8: 275-76. For the outcome of the appeal see Henry J. Bourguignon, The First Federal Court: The Federal Appellate Prize Court of the American Revolution (Philadelphia: American Philosophical Society, 1977), 229-30.
