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That your petitioner, being induced by the great scarcity of shipping in South Carolina; whereby the trade of that Country has of late suffered very considerably, has undertaken a Jong & expensive Journey, to purchase Vessels for the purpose of forwarding in some measure the exportation of the Staple Commodities of that state, and the importation of such articles as are essential to its...
Date: 28 February 1777
Volume: Volume 7
I am willing to hold an Eighth Share of your New Ship Putnam1 Commanded by Capt. Thomas Allon; And As you cannot as yet assertain her Cost & outfits, I shall leave it between said Capt Allon And you to fix the Sum I am to pay for it which I hereby promise to Confirm.
For payment of my said Eighth I have put into the hands of Capt Andrew Breedin the...
Date: 4 January 1778
Volume: Volume 11