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To the Honble John Foster Esq Judge of the Court Erected for the Trial of Prize Causes within and for the Colony of Rhode Island &c
Whereas it is absolutely necessary for the Safety of our Country at this important Period that every possible Encouragement should be given for Counteracting the Designs of our Cruel Enemies who are daily expected on our Coasts and as fitting out Privateering...
Date: 22 June 1776
Volume: Volume 5
Be it remembered that on the fourth Day of Novr, AD 1776, Richard Derby Esqr by Francies Dana his Attorney comes into Court and claims the Brigantine Kingston Packet with her apparel Boats and appurten[ances] together with Two Hundred Quintles of Dry Fish and Thirty five Barrels of pickled Fish or Mackrel part of her Cargo against which a Libel is filed in said Court by Esek Hopkins Esqr in...
Date: 4 November 1776
Volume: Volume 7
Thomas Stacy Commander of the Private Sloop of War called the Diamond fitted out at and belonging to the Port of Providence in the State aforesaid duly commissiond agreeable to the Resolves of the most Honl the Continental Congress in behalf of himself the owners and the Officers & Men belonging to said Sloop of War comes into this Honl Court and gives your Honr to understand and be informed...
Date: 7 November 1776
Volume: Volume 7
Thomas Rutenberg Commander of the private Sloop of War called the Montgomery of the port of Providence in the State aforesaid duly commissioned agreable to the Resolutions of the most Honl the continental Congress to cruise against the Enemies of the united States of America in behalf of himself; the Owners of And the officers and Men belonging to said Sloop of War comes into this Hon! Court and...
Date: 12 November 1776
Volume: Volume 7