Samuel Austin's Claim for Goods Taken on Board the Prize Brigantine Elizabeth, August 14, 1776

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State of New-Hampshire

To the honble Joshua Brackett Esqr Judge of the Maritime Court of the state of New-hampshire

Be it remembered, that on the 14th day of August A D 1776 Samuel Austin of Boston in the County of Suffolk Mercht comes into Court and claims the Goods Wares and Merchandizes mentioned in the annexed Schedule² against which a Libel is filed, in said Court by Joshua Wentworth Esqr, in behalf of the owners and others concerned in three continental armed vessels, which Goods, wares and merchandizes, are said to be taken on board the Brigt named the Elizabeth by said armed vessels and to be tried in said Court at Portsmouth on the 20th day of August instant, and the said Samuel says, The said Goods, wares and merchandizes are not forfeited, nor ought to be condemned by said Court ー Wherefore he prays the same may be restored to him and for his Costsー

John Lowell Atty to the Claimant
A true copy Examind by Jona M Sewall Cler[k]

1. Revolutionary War Prize Cases, Court of Appeals, 1776-1787, NA. Similar claims with an-nexed schedules were presented on August 14, in identical language by the following Bos- ton merchants: John Lcverett, Robert Ruggles, Samuel Dashwood, Cyrus Baldwin, Edward Keighly, Thomas Drowne, Samuel Whitwell, Adam Rupp, Samuel Parkman, John & Samuel Barrett, Jonathan Williams, John Rowe, William Breck, William and James Jackson, Francis Shaw, Samuel Ruggles, John Lowell, Nathan Frazer, Samuel Partridge and Richard Hart. Claims were also presented in behalf of the Old North Meeting House, and Mary Williams.

2. Austin's schedule, of four closely written pages, concluded with "Boston 6 August, 1776, The Goods contained in the foregoing Invoice, are my property and were taken from my store by Crean Brush and others by virtue of a proclamation and a written order issued by General How for that purpose, and are now found by me on board the Brigantine Eliza-beth Peter Ramsay late master and taken by Capt Manly and others and brought into Portsmouth in the Colony of New Hampshire." Similar statements were included by all the other claimants.

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Date

1776 August 14

Author

Austin, Samuel

Volume

Volume 6

Ships

Elizabeth (Brig)

Series

American Theatre from August 1, 1776, to August 31, 1776

Naval Documents of the American Revolution

Samuel Austin's Claim for Goods Taken on Board the Prize Brigantine Elizabeth, August 14, 1776

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