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I hope you'l Excuse my Presumtion In thus Addresing you as, It is not only In Order to Acquaint you of my Misfortune by being taken on the 1 Inst of May by the Foydrant [Foudroyant] Capt [John] Jervis, within a few Leagues of Nants River to which Place I was Bound In a Bermuda Built Sloop Cald the Alice Belonging to Messrs Thoms Savage, Blake, Russell, Grenwood & Compy Merchants In [illegible...
Date: 6 June 1777
Volume: Volume 9
Captain John Porter Commander of the Sloop Ellis [Alice] from Charles town with rice and Indigo bound for Nantes or Bordeaux saild from said Charles town 1 March 1777 on the 1 of may off Bell isle in Soundings of 50 fathom about 8 Leagues of[f] the mouth of the Loire was taken by the Fourdroyant Capt Jno Jervis of 80 Guns on the ninth of the same month Remaining Prisoner on board with Liberty of...
Date: 10 June 1777
Volume: Volume 9
South Carolina
John Porter
Vs.
Peter Norris & others
In the Admiralty
To the Honorable Hugh Rutledge Esquire
Sole Judge of the Court of Admiralty in
the State of South Carolina.
The petition and Claim ofJohn Porter Captain and Commander of the private Sloop of War Called the Rutledge, as well in behalf of himself as of the Owners, Officers, Seamen & Mariners Of and...
Date: 20 February 1778
Volume: Volume 11