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
2 brass panns
69 Duch blue potts
2 small sloope sayles
3 small quoiles[14] cordidge
4 quarter casks of brandy
2 puncheons of mault
3 small casks of wine, 1 pt out sd to be Masters.
40 white Jarrs of oyle
13 doz. stone bottles
11 barrells of Bread
1 old missen
1 old fore saile
1 new fore topsaile
1 maine topsaile
1 maine saile
1 fore saile
1 maine topsaile
1 Ensigne[15]
1 Jack
1 pennant
1 long boats new maine saile and fore saile
1 sprittsell topsaile
1 new spritsaile
1 maine saile
1 missen top saile
1 missen
1 old fore topsaile
1 fore topsaile
1 old fore saile
fore bouelings and braces and clue garnets[16]
fore Jeere
buntlins and fore topsaile clulings
fore
top mast stays
topsaile bouleings and lifts
topsaile sheets
topmast backstayes
topsaile tie and halliards
tacks
topmast shrouds
sheets
sheet blocks
Topsaile sheets blocks
Maine boleings--missen Brailes
Maine topsaile lifts
Maine
topsaile braces
brases
topsaile tie and Halliardes
clue garnetes
leich linees
topmast backstaiees
topmast sheets
topmast shroudes
buntlins
topsaile bowlelings
tackes
topmast clulings and lifts and maine Jeere
topmast staye, topmast buntlins
sheets, sheete blocks
[Footnote 14: Coils.]
[Footnote 15: The ensign was the ship's chief flag. The jack was a
small flag, in this case no doubt the union jack, combining the
crosses on the flags of England and of Scotland, and was at this time
commonly flown at the spritsail-topmast head.]
[Footnote 16: Of the various ropes here mentioned, bowlines and brails
ran to the perpendicular sides of square sails, buntlines across their
fronts; clew-garnets and clewlines were tackles for clewing up the
lower and the upper square sails respectively, jeers for hoisting the
lower yards; lifts ran from the masthead to the yard-arms, leech lines
to the sides of the topsails.]
_What in 3 Chests (of the Seamens)_
_No. 1._
4 horse whips
1 weo. coat
3 doz. thread laces
2 pa. childrens hose
1 grose brest buttons
1 p'ce diaper tape
3 pocket paper bookes
2 whisks
1 band
1 silke neck cloath
1 demity wastcoat
1 old shirt
2 yards striped linnon
6 yards Stuffe
1 p'ce kersie
1 coat
1 pa. briches
3 forestaffs[17] and vaines
[Footnote 17: Simple instruments for taking altitudes (and so
determining latitudes).]
_No. 2._
1 lookeing glass
1 doz. pa. white worsted hose for men
1 brass old trumpett
5 shirts }
3 pa. drawers } foule
1 pa. fine gloves
2 stuffe coates
1 pa. briches, wast coat, and Jacket
1 wast coat and Jacket more
1 pa. new and 3 pa. old shooes
1 pa. yarne stockings
3 neckcloaths
2 pa. hose
1 pa. linnon sleeves
2 napkins, and severall other small things.
_No. 3._
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