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The Petition of John Rowe & Joseph Cunningham Commander of the Private Schooner of Warr namd the Phenix [Phoenix] burthen One hundred Tuns Mountd with twelve Carriage & Eight Swivele Guns & Cohorns now Ready for Sea with Men in Proportion
Humbly Shewith that this Vessell is Ownd by Robert Morris Esqr of Phila delphia One of the Honble Congress — & Carter Braxton Esqr of the...
Date: 8 July 1777
Volume: Volume 9
Notwithstanding my utmost Exertions I am not yet able to put to Sea for Want of Men — Indeed the difficulty in this Respect Surpasses what I ever Imagined — I have been Indefatigable in my Endeavours to fit the Ph[o]enix compleatly that she may fully Answer the Intention; at the same Time keeping that Line of Economy in View that nothing is superfluous. I believe there is scarce a Vessell of her...
Date: 23 July 1777
Volume: Volume 9