Affidavit to permit James Warren, Jr., a lieutenant of marines aboard the Continental frigate Alliance, to receive a state pension as a result of the loss of a leg in naval action, Boston, 5 Feb. 1784

Affidavit to permit James Warren, Jr., a lieutenant of marines aboard the Continental frigate Alliance, to receive a state pension as a result of the loss of a leg in naval action, Boston, 5 Feb. 1784

Boston 1784

1 item ; 20 cm.

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Beneath the affadavit of Parke and Cooper is another certification signed J. Warren Commissioner of the late Navy Board East[er]n Department (father of James Warren, Jr.)
On verso: statement in an unidentified hand citing Congressional resolutions dealing with such pension applications.
Naval engagement occurred 28 May 1781 when the Alliance under John Barry took the British warships Atalanta and Trepassey.
See also for details of the Alliance: "Captains of the Continental Navy," 1981 by John A. McManemin (call no. REF 973 .35092 M167 1981 MB): mentions Parke and Warren as having served under Barry & Warren's leg amputation (p. 51).
James Warren, Jr. was an original member of the Massachusetts Society of the Cincinnati.
From the collection of Richard Maass.
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