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Agreement to Supply Masts and Spars for the Continental Frigates Built at Providence, August 7, 1776
This Agreement made at New Hartford, the 7th day August in the Year of our Lord One Thousand seven hundred & seventy Six, Between, Abraham Pettibone, Abraham Kellogg, Seth Smith & Martin Smith, On the One part and William Russell in behalf of the Naval Committee of Providence on the Other part, Witnesseth, That the said Pettibone, Kellogg & Smiths hath Under taken and doth hereby...
Date: 7 August 1776
Volume: Volume 6
You being Master of Our Sloop America bound for St aCroix with a Letter of Mark ー Our Orders are that you Imbrace every favourable Wind to gain your Passage and when You Arrive to Dispose of your Cargo to the best Advantage for our Interest, and layout all the nett proceeds, in the following Articles viz in Good rum, Ten or Twelve Good 4 lb Cannon, (if 4 lb Cannon cannot be got, get 6 lb ones)...
Date: 21 August 1776
Volume: Volume 6
Your Favour requesting us to procure You an Iron Hearth or Cabose for the Ship of War under Your Care2 also requesting us to inform You whether You could be supplied with.12 lb Shot and what Price we gave the Riggers for Rigging the Warren & Providence we received and it has not been in our Power to reply thereto until now by Reason of Mr Mumford (who is the only Person who...
Date: 17 October 1776
Volume: Volume 6