This may Certify whom it doth or may concern that having applied for atheCommission or Letter of Marque & Reprisal for the Privateer Sloop called American Revenue of the Burthen of Sixty five Tons or there abouts mounted with Eight four pounders four swivels Six musketts Twelve Cutlasses and three pair of Pistolls fifteen hundred Weight of round and Chain Shott one hundred Weight of Swivel Shott twenty Weight of musket & pistoll Shott, with Twenty Rounds of Powder for all the fire Arms Ten Barrels of Beef & Pork & ten Casks of Bread &c her Crew consists of Twenty Five Men under the Command of Stephen Tinker Captain James Lanifear Lieutenant William Powers Master the Said Privateer is fitted and set forth by the Subscriber at New London in the Colony of Connecticut who is Sole Owner thereof ー

New London June 15th 1776