Pennsylvania’s Revolutionary Governments, Supreme Executive Council, Register of Letters of Marque, July 31, 1778-August 12, 1782 (note: several pages have been misdated 1782 for 1781)., This Digital Object is provided in a collection that is included in POWER LIBRARY: Pennsylvania Photos and Documents, which is funded by the Office of Commonwealth Libraries of Pennsylvania/Pennsylvania Department of Education., Arranged chronologically by date. A record of the written authority granted private persons, by the Supreme Executive Council, to fit out an armed ship to plunder the goods of the British. Each page is set up in a chart, listing information in columns. Entries date from July 31, 1778- August 12, 1782, and some pages are incorrectly dated 1782 instead of 1781. Listed is information pertaining to dates of commission, name of person receiving the commission, number of carriage guns, swivels and tons on ship, number of men on ship, what commander the commissioned man was under and on what vessel he was assigned. By November 1780, columns were added dealing with the description of the captain or master, the commissioned man and a description of the lieutenant or mate. For more details, please see the published Guide to the microfilm of Pennsylvania’s revolutionary governments, 1775-1790 (record group 27) in the Pennsylvania State Archives: https://archive.org/details/guidetoofrecords00penn/page/n3/mode/2up
