Commission of the schooner David Porter : manuscript, 1814.

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Commission of the schooner David Porter : manuscript, 1814.

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The schooner was owned by Winslow Lewis and Henry Lewis of Boston, and Eastman Minor, John J. Minor, William Strong, David Miles and William M. Miles of Milford, Conn. It was commissioned to seize any British vessels found within the jurisdictional limits of the U.S. or elsewhere on the high seas.

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