Providence May. 20th. 1778.
To his Excellency the Governor.
We the Subscribers request your Excellency to grant a Commission or Letters of Marque and Reprisal to Paul Anderson Cartwright Commander of the Sloop General Arnold of which we are Owners. She is burthened about Eighteen Tons, carries two Carriage Guns two Pounders and Six Swivel Guns and otherwise fitted in a war-like Manner with Small Arms Cutlasses, Pistols, Powder, Ball and other military Stores. She hath on board Four bbls Beef & Pork Five Hundred Weight of Bread &c. We are Sir [&c.]
August Newman Joseph Sherman
Providence May 20th. 1778.
I acknowledge the above and foregoing to be a true Copy of the Instructions delivered me this Day by his Excellency the Governor, with my Commission or Letters of Marque and Reprisal as Commander of the Private Sloop of War Genl. Arnold. Witness.
Paul a Cartwright
L, R-Ar, Maritime Papers, Letters of Marque and Reprisal (1776–1780), Petitions and Instructions, p. 71.
