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- GLC#
- GLC02542.18-View header record
- Type
- Documents
- Date
- October 21, 1781
- Author/Creator
- McKean, Thomas, 1734-1817
- Title
- [Privateer's license for William Van Duerson]
- Place Written
- Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
- Pagination
- 2 p. : Height: 33.8 cm, Width: 41.8 cm
- Primary time period
- American Revolution, 1763-1783
- Sub-Era
- The War for Independence
Partially printed document signed by McKean as President of Congress and countersigned by Charles Thomson as Secretary of the Continental Congress. Identifies Van Duerson as the commander of the brigantine Middletown owned by Chauncey Whittlesey. The verso has a signed statement by Connecticut Governor Jonathan Trumbull providing a physical descriptions of Duerson and his lieutenant, William Spencer, given at Hartford, Connecticut. Includes a paper seal.
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