- Note
Physical description: Ms., 2 p. 31.3 cm. Tears with loss of text
fragile.
Item note: ...Petition of Winborn Adams Commander of the Armed Schooner called The Wann..."...Petition of Winborn Adams Commander of the Armed Schooner called The Wann [i.e., Warren] imployed in the Service of the United Colonies to cruise against the open and avowed Enemies of the said Colonies in behalf of Himself and his Associates... being out on a Cruise... saw a Schooner to wch he gave chase... she came from Novascotia and was bound to Boston... [with potatoes and turnips] for the Use of the Army and Navy there..."Adams captured the schooner Rainbow, John McMomagle, master. See Naval Documents of the American Revolution vol. 2, p. 1217
vol. 3, p. 92
see also pp. 36, 253, 318, etc.
Original digital object name: bei-m240
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