This may certify Whom it doth or may concern, that having applied for a Commission or Letter of Marque & Reprisal for the Privateer Sloop called the Game-Cock of the burthen of Forty two Tons or thereabouts ー mounted with Four Three Pounders and two Four pounders, Eight Swivels Twelve S[illegible] 6 Blunder busses, Twenty Muskets twenty Four Cutlasses & Thirty pair of Pistolls ー Five hundred wt of Round & Chain Shott ー Three hundred wt of Swivel and Grape Shott ー & one hundred and Fifty wt of Musket and pistol Shott ー with Thirty Rounds of Powder for all the fire Arms Fifty hand Granados ー Forty Barrels of Beef & Pork & Twenty Eight Casks Bread, three Casks pease &c ー Her Crew Consists of Fifty Men under the command of Lemuel Brooks Captain ー John Gordon first Lieut. Thomas Wheedon second Lieutenant ー      White, Master ー the said Privateer is fitted & set forth by the subscriber at New Haven in the Colony of Connecticut who is sole owner thereof ー

Hartford May 13th 1776