(WAR OF 1812) Articles of agreement for the privateer schoon

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(WAR OF 1812.) Articles of agreement for the privateer schooner Manhattan. Partly printed document, 16 x 13 inches, completed in manuscript, and signed by Captain Alexander McCully and 31 other crew members, plus witnesses; quite worn with substantial areas of loss, laid down on paper and stabilized at an early date. Newburyport, MA, 7 July 1812

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The schooner Manhattan was Newburyport's first privateer of the war, according to Blake's History of Newburyport, page 197. The printed form describes the share of prizes to be issued to each category of officer and crew. Rewards for the loss of limb or eye are detailed, and additional shares are stipulated for the man who first sights and boards a prize. The term of the cruise was only one month.