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We the Subscribers of Providence and Newport in the Colony of Rhode Island Merchants, request your Honor to grant a Commission or Letters of Marque and Reprisal to William Chace Commander of the Sloop Diamond ー of which we are Owners, she is burthened about Sixty Tons, carries Six Carriage Guns Four Pounders, and Ten Swivel Guns, manned with Forty Men and fitted with a suitable Quantity of...
Date: 6 July 1776
Volume: Volume 5
Mr George Babcock as I have appointed you Prize Master of the Ship Staar & Garter my Orders to you are not to leave Company of the Sloop Diamond but Consort with her till my further Orders, and that in Dark nights you keep a light in your Shrouds or some Convenient part of the Ship to be seen and upon your hearing a Gun from the Sloop Either in the day or Night you are to make Directly...
Date: 25 July 1776
Volume: Volume 5
your being Commander of the priveteer Sloop Diamond our orders and Instructions are that you proceed on a Crews a gainst all Vessels and property belon[g]ing to any and all persons living at aney place under the dominions of the king of Grait Britton or any Vessells and Cargos What. Ever Which you may find bound to or from the Aiding or in Aney manner supplying the Fleet or army Imployed against...
Date: 21 August 1776
Volume: Volume 6