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- GLC#
- GLC01411.09-View header record
- Type
- Documents
- Date
- 3 March 1779
- Author/Creator
- Johnson, William, fl. 1779
- Title
- [Oath sworn in the Court of Vice Admiralty of East Florida]
- Place Written
- s.l.
- Pagination
- 1 p. : docket Height: 30.3 cm, Width: 18.8 cm
- Primary time period
- American Revolution, 1763-1783
- Sub-Era
- The War for Independence
Countersigned by Judge Robert Catherwood. Legal document signed by William Johnson, swearing an oath before the court that the ship "The Chance Now" brought in on 2 March by the privateer "Tory's Revenge" is rightfully owned by the merchants Peter and John Berthon of London. The Americans had called the captured ship the "Maria." Probably written in St. Augustine.
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