L: S: P: To all to whom this present Writing or Instrument of Protest shall come or may concern Greeting.
Know Ye that this twenty third day of February in the Year of Our Lord one thousand seven hundred and seventy seven before me personally appeared Samuel Lightbourn late Master of a Certain Brigantine called the Fanny who Solemnly made Oath on the Holy Evangelists of Almighty God that he Sailed with the said Brigantine under his Command from the Island of Antigua on the Thirty first day of July last past bound for London, and Accordingly proceeded until! the Twenty first day of August following being then in latitude 33 °00' No Longitude 59.30 Wt when he was pursued & taken by an American Privateer Sloop called the Independence Ja bas [Jabez] Whipple Commander and sent into Providence in Rhode Island Government, and there condemned in the Court of Admiralty at said Place, And in like manner also appeared John Lightbourn late Mate of and belonging to the said Brigantine Fanny who likewise Solemnly made Oath that all what the above Named Samuel Lightbourn hath before deposed is true
Wherefore the said Samuel Lightbourn for himself his Mariners Owners Freighters and all others whom it doth or may concern does hereby Protest against the matters aforesaid, And all Damage Occasioned or sustained thereby as also Against all costs delays disappointments Expences and other matters and things which can or may lawfully be protested Against in as large and Ample manner as the same can or may be done by Law or Form. And Persevering in the said Protest the said Appearers have hereunto set their Hands the day and Year first above written.
Samuel Lightbourn John Lightbourn
This Done and Protested before me the Governor and Vice Admiral aforesaid, In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and caused the Great Seal of these Islands to be affixed the day and year aforesaid —
George Jas Bruere
By His Excellency's Command Jno Randle D: Secy
1. Book of Bonds, Bills, Grants and Protests, No. 14, 407-08, Bda . Arch.
