Records of the Proprietors of the Privateer Brigantine General Sullivan, 1777-1781.

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Records of the Proprietors of the Privateer Brigantine General Sullivan, 1777-1781.

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Minutes of meetings, receipts, accounts, and other papers relating to the business of this group, organized in Portsmouth, N.H., in Nov. 1777, for the purpose of preying on the British West Indies trade. The proprietors included Joshua Wentworth, George Wentworth, Moses Woodward, Nathaniel Folsom, John Taylor Gilman, and Robert Parker. The minutes record that the General Sullivan was commanded first and unsuccessfully by Thomas Dalling and later by Thomas Manning, whose prizes included the brigantine Charlotte.

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Folsom, Nathaniel, 1726-1790

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Nathaniel Folsom (September 28, 1726 – May 26, 1790) was an American merchant and statesman. He was a delegate for New Hampshire in the Continental Congress in 1774 and 1777 to 1780, signing the Continental Association. He served as major general of the New Hampshire Militia during the American Revolutionary War and is a Founding Father of the United States. Born in Exeter in the Province of New Hampshire, Folsom went to work for a merchant after the death of his father. He invested in timber...

Wentworth, George, 1740-1820.

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Proprietors of the Privateer Brigantine General Sullivan

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General Sullivan (Privateer)

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Wentworth, Joshua, 1742-1813

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Letter from Wentworth to Joseph Gilman, of Exeter, N.H., regarding the sale of shares in the privateer General Sullivan in which they were both investors. From the description of Letter, 1777 Dec. 15. (Portsmouth Athenaeum Library & Museum). WorldCat record id: 70926518 ...

Parker, Robert, 1957-

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Manning, Thomas A.

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Gilman, John Taylor, 1753-1828

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John Taylor Gilman (December 19, 1753 – September 1, 1828) was a farmer, shipbuilder and statesman from Exeter, New Hampshire. He represented New Hampshire in the Continental Congress in 1782 and 1783 and was the fifth governor of New Hampshire for 14 years, from 1794 to 1805, and from 1813 to 1816. Born in Exeter in the Province of New Hampshire, Gilman received a limited education before entering into the family shipbuilding and mercantile businesses. Aged 22, he read aloud a Dunlap Broadsi...

Charlotte (Brigantine)

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Dalling, Thomas, Sir

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Woodward, Moses Hawkins, 1761-1804

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