[1805]
Bashaw Caramanli, Jusuf, fl. 1805-1811
Receipt of ransom for American prisoners [in Arabic with English translation]
"We hereby acknowledge & have received from the hands of Col: Tobias Lear the full sum of sixty thousand dollars mentioned as Ransom for two hundred Americans, in the Treaty of Peace." Notation on second page: "Translation."
GLC02794.173