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Sunday, 14 January 2024

American privateer Active in 1781

State Pennsylvania. Ship type brigantine. Date letter of marque 29 September 1781. Armament 7 guns. Crew 24 men. Bond 20,000 US dollars. Master Charles Biddle, Philadelphia. Mate Benjamin Leacraft [Philadelphia]. . Bonders Francis Gurney and Charles Biddle, both Philadelphia. Owners Francis Gurney, Charles Pettit, Clement Bidd;e and others [Philadelphia]. Witnesses H. Osborne, James Trimble.

Source

Naval Records of the American Revolution 1775-1788. Library of Congress, Washington, 1906.

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