State of MASSACHUSETTS-BAY. |
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To all whom it may
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Middle-District. |
NOTICE is hereby given, That Libels are filed before me, against the following Vessels and their Cargoes, viz.—In Behalf of James Babson, Commander of the armed Brigantine General Mercer, and all concerned therein, against the Schooner NANCY,1 of about 60 Tons burthen, John Hunderhill late Master: In Behalf of the Owners, Officers, Marines, and all concerned in the Brigantine General Mercer, and the Schooner Hawk,2 against the Brigantine PEGGY, of about 90 Tons burthen. ——— Jackson, late Master: In Behalf of John Leach Commander of the Schooner Dolphin and all concerned therein, against the Schooner GAUGER of about 25 Tons burthen, John Robinson late Master: In Behalf of William Steward, Commander of the armed Sloop Montgomery,3 and all concerned therein, against the Schooner POLLY, of about 50 Tons burthen, Andrew Arthur late Master: In behalf of Samuel Champlin and Joseph Concklin, Commanders of the Sloops American Revenue4 and Revenge,5 and all concerned in said Sloops, against the Ship LOVELY LASS,6 of about 150 Tons burthen, Andrew Waid late Master: In Behalf of Wm. Langdell, Commander of the Schooner Cente-Pea,7 and all concerned therein, against the Schooner BETSEY, of about 50 Tons burthen, Joseph Saywood late Master: In Behalf of Jonathan Harriden, Commander of the Brigantine Tyrannicide, in the Service of this State, and all concerned therein, against the Snow SWIFT,8 of about 140 Tons burthen, William Peirce late Master: In Behalf of Nathan Brown, Commander of the private armed Brigantine Montgomery,9 and all concerned therein, against the Brigantine WARBOURN,10 her Cargoe, &c. of 150 Tons burthen, Martin Stokes, late Master: In Behalf of Benjamin Warren, Commander of the private armed Brigantine Lyon,11 and all concerned therein, against the Brigantine HECTOR,12 her Cargo, &c. of about 100 Tons burthen, William White late Master: In Behalf of Henry Phelps, Commander of the private armed Sloop Black-Snake,13 and all concerned therein, against sundry Goods and Merchandize, taken out of a Shallop, of about 15 Tons burthen, on the High-Seas, which said Shallop was bound from Halifax to some other Port in Nova Scotia.—All which Vessels, and their Cargoes, so libelled, are said to have been taken and brought into the Middle-District aforesaid: And for the Trial of the Justice of said Captures, the Maritime-Court for the said District, will be held at Boston, on Tuesday, the 9th Day of June, next, at Ten o'Clock in the Forenoon, when and where the Owners of said Captures, or any Persons concerned therein, may appear, and shew cause (if any they have) why the same, or any of them, should not be condemned.
N. CUSHING, Judge of said Court