Port of Providence
State of Rhode-Island and Providence Plantations. This may certify all whom it may concern, That James Bourk Master of the Brigantine Harry Burthen Thirty Tons, or thereabouts, by Register, mounted with No Guns, navigated with Five Men, and bound for Hispaniola having on board Thirty Hogsheads of Fish Twenty Thousand of Hoops Two Hundred Shaken Casks Three Thousand Ropes of Onions Five Thousand Bricks Ten Thousand Feet of Boards and the necessary Provisions for the Voyage hath complied with the Requisites for qualifying Vessels to trade.
Henry Ward Intendant
Given under my Hand and Seal of Office, at Providence aforesaid, this Twentieth Day of November in the Year of our Lord 1776
1. Maritime Papers, Bonds, Masters of Vessels, 1776-1778, R.I. Arch. A printed form with the blanks filled in, and shown in italics.
