Certificate of the Providence Marine Society, issued in 1806 to Lt. Pierre Douville of the Continental Navy [engraving]

Certificate of the Providence Marine Society, issued in 1806 to Lt. Pierre Douville of the Continental Navy [engraving]

[Providence, R.I. : Providence Marine Society 1806]

1 print : hand colored ; 24 x 38 cm. framed 36 x 51 cm.

P&E 2155-1 [framed]

"No. 103. These are to certify that (Peter?) Douville was regularly appointed a member of the Providence Marine Society ... "
Certificate of membership of the Providence Marine Society, with ships and Neptune driving horses over the sea on top, and at the bottom, ships in port at Providence.
French-Canadian Pierre Douville, who joined the Rhode Island Continental Navy and fought in the American Revolution under the name of Peter Douville.
Douville was an original member of the Rhode Island Society.
See Antiques Magazine, March 1925, p. 136.
Gift of Charles S. Coburn, Porterville, Ca., 1961.

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