Collection of two items related to Barzilla Smith, a privateer [Decimalized .01-.02]

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Collection Details

GLC#: GLC01450.014-View header record
Type: Header Record
Date: 1776-1777
Title: Collection of two items related to Barzilla Smith, a privateer [Decimalized .01-.02]
Place Written: s.l.
Pagination: 2 items

Time Period

Primary time period: American Revolution, 1763-1783

Sub-Era: The War for Independence

Subjects

Global History and US Foreign Policy

Continental Congress

Congress

Wartime Pillaging and Destruction

Finance

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Collection Item

Document signed

[Assignment of privateer's bond by John Hancock to Joseph Hewes and Robert Smith]

September 13, 1777

Hancock, John, 1737-1793

Countersigned by Jacob Rush and Benjamin Towne. Revokes the earlier privateer commission given to Barzilla Smith by Hancock as President of the Congress of the United States because Smith did not conduct himself and his crew according to the terms...

GLC01450.014.01

Collection Item

Document signed

[Privateer bond of Barzilla Smith, Joseph Chapman, and Elijah F. Payne]

October 15, 1776

Smith, Barzilla, fl. 1776-1777

Privateer commission binding the three men in the amount of $5,000 to John Hancock, President of the Congress of the United States. Commissions Smith as commander of the privateer schooner the Eagle, Payne as owner of the schooner, and Chapman as...

GLC01450.014.02

Collection of two items related to Barzilla Smith, a privateer [Decimalized .01-.02]

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