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- GLC#
- GLC01450.525-View header record
- Type
- Documents
- Date
- 15 March 1776
- Author/Creator
- Dalton, Tristram, 1738-1817
- Title
- Dr The Sloop Game Cock to Sundry Adventurers as a Privateer
- Place Written
- Newburyport, Massachusetts
- Pagination
- 2 p. : docket ; Height: 45.6 cm, Width: 19 cm
- Primary time period
- American Revolution, 1763-1783
- Sub-Era
- The War for Independence
Signed by Dalton, Jackson, Tracy & Tracy, Stephen & Ralph Cross, and Jonathan Sitcomb. Provides account information for the vessel (Dr means Debit Record), listing individual balances of the firms or persons invested. Indicates a fifth share pertaining to Colonel Moses Little, who does not sign. Discusses damages, expenditures, and the division of costs and profits. Agreed to and signed 15 March, though partially recorded 26 February 1776.
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