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(BRITISH PASS TO NEW YORK)

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(BRITISH PASS TO NEW YORK)
"Party-printed D.S. 1p. small 4to., New York, Aug. 19, 1780, allowing ""Pursuant to his Excellency Sir WILLIAM HOWE's Proclamation of the 17th. July, 1777. Permission is hereby given to Isaac Shipman to take ye Sloop Sea Flower to Huntington on Bay Shot then Galn. Molasses one bushel salt one [?] cards sundries 40s..."". Document approved and signed by one Samuel Moore. This particular sloop may very well have been serving occasionally as an American privateer. In Elise N. Danenberg's study on the war in Fairfield County, Conn: Naval History of Fairfield County Men in the Revolution (1977), she mentions that in 1782 Connecticut Capt. David Hawley who assumed command of the sloop Seaflower ""...carrying four guns and manned by thirty men..."". Creases, one partially split, uneven margins, but good and bright and in very good condition." 2489 Party-printed D.S. 1p. small 4to., New York, Aug. 19, 1780, allowing ""Pursuant to his Excellency Sir WILLIAM HOWE's Proclamation of the 17th. July, 1777. Permission is hereby given to Isaac Shipman to take ye Sloop Sea Flower to Huntington on Bay Shot then Galn. Molasses one bushel salt one [?] cards sundries 40s..."". Document approved and signed by one Samuel Moore. This particular sloop may very well have been serving occasionally as an American privateer. In Elise N. Danenberg's study on the war in Fairfield County, Conn: Naval History of Fairfield County Men in the Revolution (1977), she mentions that in 1782 Connecticut Capt. David Hawley who assumed command of the sloop Seaflower ""...carrying four guns and manned by thirty men..."". Creases, one partially split, uneven margins, but good and bright and in very good condition.