Box MSS VF 38
Container
Contains 1 Result:
Privateering and miscellaneous papers, 1781-1802 Digital
FOUND IN:
Baker Library Special Collections and Archives, Harvard Business School
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Collection:
Vertical file collection on military and naval activities
Item — Box: MSS VF 38, Folder: 19Identifier: Mss:912 1754-1866
Scope and Contents:
Includes a 1781 bond between Benjamin Hill, master of the sloop Abigail, and Nathan Miller, her owners, both of Rhode Island, with United States Treasurer Michael Hilligas, commissioning her as a privateer. Other owners of the eight-gun vessel were Samuel Broome and Lebanon Bradford. Also contains undated signaling instructions for American ships, and a copy of an agreement regarding rations of daily subsistence to be issued to American and British prisoners of war. There is additionally a...