Power of attorney for the crew of the Schooner Surprise, 1814 August 22.

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Power of attorney for the crew of the Schooner Surprise, 1814 August 22.

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Handwritten copy of a document signed by the commander, officers, seaman, mariners and other belonging to the private armed Schooner called the Surprise of Baltimore naming Lemuel Taylor, a merchant of Baltimore, Md., as their attorney and prize agent. Copy includes the oath (notarized by Public Notary Josiah C. Shaw) by John Murphy of Newport, R.I. that the crew signed their names as a voluntary act. Document also has a note (notarized by Public Notary John Gill of Baltimore) that Lemuel Taylor appointed attorney M.D. Cutts of Saco, ME to receive all prize money coming to the crew of the Schooner Surprise from the Schooner Charlotte Ann and cargo captured by the Schooner Surprise.

1 ADS ; 33 cm.

New England Historic Genealogical Society

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New England Historic Genealogical Society

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Cutts, M. D.

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Murphy, John F.

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John Murphy, was fifteen years old when he joined the overland expedition from Brisbane to Port Essington, Northern Territory, led by Ludwig Leichhardt. The expedition left its last outpost, Thomas Bell's Jimbour station, on 1 Oct. 1844 and reached the military settlement of Victoria, Port Essington, 17 Dec. 1845. From the description of Journal [manuscript]. (Libraries Australia). WorldCat record id: 225767999 ...

Charlotte Ann (Schooner)

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Surprise (Schooner)

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Taylor, Lemuel W.

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Shaw, Josiah C. (Josiah Crocker), 1767-1847

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Gill, John

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