To the Honorable Council Setting at Watertown In the State of the Massuchusets Bay September The Thirteenth day, Anno Domini 1776 ー The Petition of Isaac Snow of Harpswell in the County of Cumberland
Humbly Shewethー
That Your Petitioner has the Command of A Private Schooner of Warr, Called the America of Ninety Eight Tons Burthen, Mounting Ten Carriage Gunns Eight of which are four pounders & Two Three Pounders, Eighteen Swivel Guns five Hundred weight of Powder, fifteen hundred weight Of Shott, Thirty five barrels Pork and Beef, Six Thousand weight of Bread, Belonging to Aaron Hinckly, Esqr of Brunswick, James McCobb Esqr of George Town ー [illegible] Pennington Esqr and Messrs John Snow, Joseph Linscott, Henry Merritt, Elisha Snow and Isaac Snow your petitioner of Harpswell in the County of Cumberland, In the State aforesaid Whereof Isaac Snow of Harpswell aforesaid is Commander and Benjamin Lemmount of George Town in the County of Lincoln is Lieutenunt, with Eighty Menー
Your Petitioner Prays Your Honors would Grant him A Commission to Cruize Against the Enemies of the United States of America, and Your Petitioner as in Duty bound Shall Ever Pray &c
Isaac Snow In behalf of himself and other owners ー
[Endorsed] In Council [Watertown] Sept 13, 1776 Read & Orderd that a Commission be issued out to the Above named Isaac Snow as Commander [of] the Schr America he Complying with the Resolves of the Congressー
John Avery Dpy Secy
