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Letter of Marque
His Excellency
(1. Governor)
Sir John Wentworth,
Baronet, L.L.D.
Governor and Commander in Chief, in and
Over His Majesty’s Province of Nova-Scotia, and it’s
Dependencies,
&c. &c. &c.
These are to certify that
(2. Captain's Name)
Joseph
Freeman
of (3. City) Liverpool
in
the Province of
(4. Province)
Nova
Scotia Master of the Ship called the
(5. Vessel's
Name) Duke
of Kent a British Ship Navigated by One hundred men including officers Mounting Twenty
Carriage Guns having
Applied to me for an Authority to cruise against all His Majesty‘s
Enemies & having received His Majesty‘s Commands to encourage all
His Majesty‘s Subjects by every means in their power to distress and
annoy the Trade of all His Majesty‘s Enemies.
And the
said Ship having been duly Registered in His Majesty‘s Custom House in
this province as a British Ship & being regularly described in such
Register to even there presents refer.
I
do by virtue of the Power & Authority to me given comfortable to His
Majesty‘s pleasure expressed to me by the Right Honorable and Most Noble
His Grace the Duke of Portland,
Authorize and Empower the said Joseph
Freeman in
and with the said Ship called the
Duke of
Kent to cruise against all His Majesty‘s Enemies, and
am fully authorized to assure him and all others involved in said private Ship
of War,
that His Majesty will consider him & them as fully Entitled to having
a just claim to all vessels & property of every kind which he or they
shall make prize of from all or any of His Majesty‘s Enemies, provided
the same shall have been first condemned as Lawful prize to His
Majesty‘s High Court of Admiralty or in some of His Majesty‘s Courts
of Vice Admiralty having Lawful authority to take Cognizance of the same.
Given
under my Hand & Seal of Arms at Halifax this 6th day of
November 1799 in the 39th Year of His Majesty‘s Reign.
By His
Excellency‘s Command |
