Printed broadside (completed in ms. through 19 January 1776) includes ms. signature lists of sailors for service on the Continental Navy ship USS Columbus under the command of Abraham Whipple of Rhode Island, including 21 officers and midshipmen; 92 seamen, landsmen, craftsmen and gunners; and a boy named Scipio Rathbun, whose occupation is given as "negro boy"; with their dates of enlistment, rank and rate of pay. Terms of agreement to be signed by sailors of private vessels entering into the service; prizes taken during the course of such service "shall be proceeded against, and distributed according to the resolution of the Congress, passed the 15th day of November, 1775." Text in two columns. Backed with archival tissue.