Williamsburg, December 6.
The master and crew of the ship Caroline, taken by the schooner privateer Harlequin,2 and condemned as a lawful prize by the Court of Admiralty of this state, are hereby advertised, that they are to apply to William Lux, esq; of the town of Baltimore, in the state of Maryland, for payment of the wages due to them from said ship, agreeable to a resolution of the Continental Congress.3
By order of the Hon. Court of Admiralty.
Ben: Powell, marshal
1. Purdie's Virginia Gazette, December 6, 1776.
2. A Maryland privateer, William Woolsey, commander.
3. Resolution of March 19, 1776: "that all seamen and mariners on board of merchants ships and vessels, taken and condemned as prize, shall be entitled to their pay, according to the terms of their contracts, until the time of the condemnation," Ford, ed., JCC, IV, 214.
