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Manuscript 1784
American Revolution. Autograph M/ss document signed Oliver Arnold, of the town of Norwich in the County of New London, State of Connecticut, dated 20 May 1784. Witnessed by Roger Griswold, then an attorney, later Governor of Connecticut. Arnold was a sailor on the Continental frigate Alliance, commanded by Peter Landais, for two years, 'in which time sd. Frigate made captures of several legal prizes from the then enemies of the United States - to a share in which prizes I was & am entitled, but have never received my share & proportion thereof...'. He assigns the forty shillings he feels due to him to Dudley Woodbridge.
With a long typescript account of the record of the Alliance in the fight against the British, including a collision with the U.S. flagship Bonhomme Richard during a storm. As a m/ss, w.a.f. (1)
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