...I should be exceedingly glad if there was a coincidence in oar sentiments respecting Privateering. I agree with you that the privateers have much distressed...a much larger number of Public Ships than has been titled out, which might have distressed the Enemy nearly as much & furnished these States with necessaries...

...I should be exceedingly Glad if there was a coincidence in our sentiments respecting Privateering. I agree with you that the privateers have much distressed...of our Enemies, but had there been no privateers, 318 Letters concerning the Revolutionary War. [July? is it not probable there wod have been a much...

...hand, the system was subject to abuses and was in many ways detrimental to the regular naval service. William Whipple, writing to Josiah Bartlett from Portsmouth,...which might have distressed the Enemy nearly as much & furnished these States with necessaries on much better terms than they have been supplied by Privateers?...

...was subject to abuses and was in many ways detrimental to the regular naval service. William Whippie, writing to Josiah Bartlett from Portsmouth, New Hampshire,...which might have distressed the Enemy nearly as much & furnished these States with necessaries on much better terms than they have been supplied by Privateers?...