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[Settlement of shares of the Pilgrim's prizes]

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC01450.006.27 Author/Creator: Place Written: Beverly, Massachusetts Type: Manuscript Date: July 1806 Pagination: 2 p. : docket : Height: 32 cm, Width: 20 cm Order a Copy

Details the settlement of 45 1/8 shares of the Brigantine Hope prize captured by the privateer ship, the Pilgrim on its first cruise with Hugh Hill as captain. Also mentions the captors shares in the Dalton lands. From the estate of John Lovett, a privateer ship merchant and captain in Beverly, Massachusetts. He served as the agent for the Pilgrim's prizes.

Lovett, John, 1743-1792

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