Privateering and Piracy in the Colonial Period: Illustrative Documents
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Privateering and Piracy in the Colonial Period: Illustrative Documents
Pirates; Privateering; United States -- History -- Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775 -- Sources
[Footnote 2: French (?) falls; a fall was a collar falling flat around
the neck.]
[Footnote 3: Plain.]
[Footnote 4: A linen fabric.]
[Footnote 5: Coarse linen.]
_a large hhd._
1 doz. 10 paire mens fr. falls
4 pa. pumps with heeles
2 saddles
7 curb bitts
6 snaffall bitts
1 pa. black head stall and raynes and crupp and breastplate
1 dubble girt
4 halters
1 doz. white raynes and headstalls
6 pa. white stirrup leathers
1 doz. pa. boyes and girles shooes
2 doz. 1/2 mens pl. shooes
1 p'ce kersie no. 1: 26-3/4
1 p'ce dito--2:26
1 p'ce. searge
_a little hhd._
6 large pewter basons
3 large Iron shovels
1 curb bitt
1 side saddle and furniture
2 doz. pa. mens fr. falls
10 pa. mens pl. shooes
2 pa. woodden heele weo.[6] shooes
[Footnote 6: Women's.]
_a little hhd._
40 pa. fr. falls and woodden heele shooes for men and w.
18 pa. mens pl. shooes
2 pa. boyes pl. shooes
_a broad hamper._
5 doz: 1/2 low crowne black hatts
* * * * *
9 reams of paper Damnified[7]
2 peeces of haire cloath ell wide
a small baile of 2 small p'ces of small canvas
1 p'ce ell wide fine canvas in a bundall
1 p'ce Lockram }
halfe a peece fine dowlas } in a bundall
[Footnote 7: Damaged.]
_a box._
3 gounds[8]
2 Jasto Corps[9]
4 stuffe coates for men
[Footnote 8: Gowns.]
[Footnote 9: Justaucorps.]
_a box._
2 stuffe vest for boyes
2 boyes little coates
2 childrens coates
2 scarlett parragon[10] coates
2 childes parragon coate
1 boyes coat
[Footnote 10: Double camlet.]
_a box._
5 coates and briches for men
2 weo. Stuffe gounes
2 mens cloakes
_a box._
1 p'ce blue linnon
a small parcell dowlas
a small parcell lockram
22 small bundles black thread
1 doz. mens white worsted hose, ratt eaten
_a box, the baile in it._
13 peeces blue linnon
_a box._
23 low crowne black hatts
16 p'ces of taffeta ribbon severall colours
20 p'ces of black dito
_a box._
12 peeces blue linnon
* * * * *
a barrell of powder
_a small box broak open._
7 yards ticking
28 yards blue linnon
2 pa. weo. parragon bodices and Stomegers[11]
17 yards 1/2 of Stuffe
1 lb. black thread
[Footnote 11: Stomachers.]
* * * * *
1 small barrell of nayles
_a great chest._
7 peeces kersie
2 p'ces red playnes[12]
1 p'ce white cotton
12 grose coat button
2 doz. pins
4 peeces galloune[13]
3 papers white filleting
12 peeces white tape
a paper sewing and stiching silks about a ld.
6 paire woe. parragon bodices and stomegers
6 pa. childrens bodices
[Footnote 12: Flannel.]
[Footnote 13: Narrow braid of gold, silver, or silk thread.]
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