I Enoch Linnel of Eastham Mariner of lawful Age Testify that in the Month of February A. D. 1775 being then Master of the Sloop Unity of Thirty Tuns Burthen Value one hundred and twenty Pounds Lawful Money - Bound from Salem to Eastham with a Cargo on Board of one Hundred sixty Six pounds seventeen Shillings and seven Pence three farthings lawful Money Value as may be seen per Invoices and Accounts I now have in Possession
As I lay at Ancor in Cape Cod Harbor there came in an Armed Schooner ---- Greaves Capt. and ---- Dawson Master 2 ー They immediately seized my Vessel and Cargo and carried her into the Port or Harbour of Boston and after detaining me there about four Weeks they pretended to lybel the Sloop She was condemned and I lost the whole Vessel & Cargo of Value two Hundred Eighty six Pounds seventeen Shillings and seven Pence three farthings lawful Money.
Enoch Linnel.
£286.17.7.3.
Colony of Massachusetts Bay.
Barnstable ss The Eight Day of March A.D. 1776 the above named Enoch Linnel Personally appeared and made Oath to the Truth of the abovewritten before me
Thomas Paine Justice of the Peace
1. Mass. Arch., vol. 194, 274.
2. Probably H.M. Schooner Diana, Lieutenant Thomas Graves.
