In Compliance with the Request of the Honorable Committee appointed by the Honorable Assembly of this Colony, directing those who have sustained Losses by the Ministerial Army & Navy forthwith to render proper Accounts of the same to the Honr Joseph Palmer Esq one of the Committee appointed for that Purpose ー I the Subscriber do hereby render an Account of the Schooner Charlotte loaded with Wood from Damiscotta bound for Newbury taken about the last of September by a Cruizer and carryed to Boston ー 2
, Schooner Charlotte and Appurtenances
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| of which Capt Joseph Nathey was | |
| Master when taken | 309 .. 18 .. 11 £359 .. 19 .. 11 |
| Wood & Cash on board when taken | 50 .. |
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Marblehead January 25th 1776
, Samuel Russell Gerry
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[Endorsed] We the Subscribers beleive the Above to be a true Estimate of the Loss sustained by Mr Saml Russell Gerry as Witness our Hands
, Mhead Feby 5: 1776
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| Joshua Orne | John Reed |  |
, Committee , |
| Joseph Homan | Edwd Fettyplace | ||
| Stephen Phillips | Wm Doliber | ||
| William Knight |
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[Second endorsement] Colony of the Masstts Bay.
, Essex ss. March 29. 1776. Then Samuel Russell Gerry above named did swear that the estimate above made, of the loss he sustained by the navy of Great Britain, amounting to three hundred & fifty nine pounds nineteen shillings & eleven pence, is just and true.
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Before Timothy Pickering junr Justice of the Peace.
1. Mass. Arch., vol. 138,412.