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Frontispiece

facing page 20

Petition for a Commission for a Vessel which has already taken
Prizes without one

State Archives, 165, 477.

A Privateersman's Commission.

State Archives, 166, 72.

Letter urging the Need of Armed Vessels
State Archives, 193, 277.

138.

Bond not to recruit in any Town which has not raised its.
Quota for the Continental Army

State Archives, 139, 127.

The First Massachusetts Privateer Bond in the Revolution.
State Archives, VII, 48.

Petition for a Letter of Marque

State Archives, 167, 17.

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38

44

56

66

86

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Petition for Liberty to sail notwithstanding Embargo

State Archives, 166, 115.

Warrant for Impressment of a Vessel for the Penobscot Ex-
pedition.

State Archives, 145, 8.

Bond not to enlist New Englanders other than those of
Massachusetts

164

State Archives, 139, 141.

126

152

Bond not to enlist Continental Soldiers

State Archives, 139, 158.

Bond for a Voyage to Salem with Military Stores.
State Archives, 209, 53.

Assignment of Prize Money

Massachusetts Historical Society, Nathan Dane Papers.
Affidavit concerning a Vessel taken by the British.
Massachusetts Historical Society, Dolbeare Papers.
A Continental Bond

State Archives, VII, 199.

180

A Continental Bond in the Library of Congress

Papers of the Continental Congress, 196, XII, 23. Petition for a Letter of Marque for a Vessel of the State Navy 254 State Archives, 166, 195.

Affidavit as to the American Ownership of a Vessel
Massachusetts Historical Society, Dolbeare Papers.

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MASSACHUSETTS PRIVATEERS

OF THE REVOLUTION