James Arbuckle A.D.S., Accomack County, Virginia, 14 February, 1777
1777
MSS L1988.190.237
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Title
James Arbuckle A.D.S., Accomack County, Virginia, 14 February, 1777
Variant Title
Capt Jacob Taylor's protest|Deposition
Published
Accomack County [Va.] 1777
Description
[2] p. ; 32 cm. (fol.)
Call Number
MSS L1988.190.237
Note
Signed at bottom of p. [1] : Jacob Taylor, Jabez Harlow, [and] George Morton
Docketed on verso: Capt Jacob Taylors protest
"Be it remembered that on the seventeenth day of February ... one thousand seven hundred and seventy seven ... personally appeared before me James Arbuckle one of the justices of this commonwealth ... Jacob Taylor master of the schooner Elizabeth on Continental service, Jabez Harlow mate, and George Morton sailor, all belonging to said schooner...."
"[W]e met with (as we thought) a tender, who gave us chase, and in order to get clear of her we sailed to sea, in order to endeavour to get to some sea port on the coast in Virginia to make report to the governor of Virginia...."
"I do in behalf of them ... solemnly protest against the said vessell of war belonging to his Britanick Majesty, and any loss that may happen or occur ...."
A Jacob Taylor of Plymouth, Mass., possibly this one, was captured early in the war but escaped; he died in 1788 and is buried in Plymouth.
See also documents relating to Jacob Taylor: MSS L1988.190.238 - .240
Paper seal attached by Arbuckle's signature.
Docketed on verso: Capt Jacob Taylors protest
"Be it remembered that on the seventeenth day of February ... one thousand seven hundred and seventy seven ... personally appeared before me James Arbuckle one of the justices of this commonwealth ... Jacob Taylor master of the schooner Elizabeth on Continental service, Jabez Harlow mate, and George Morton sailor, all belonging to said schooner...."
"[W]e met with (as we thought) a tender, who gave us chase, and in order to get clear of her we sailed to sea, in order to endeavour to get to some sea port on the coast in Virginia to make report to the governor of Virginia...."
"I do in behalf of them ... solemnly protest against the said vessell of war belonging to his Britanick Majesty, and any loss that may happen or occur ...."
A Jacob Taylor of Plymouth, Mass., possibly this one, was captured early in the war but escaped; he died in 1788 and is buried in Plymouth.
See also documents relating to Jacob Taylor: MSS L1988.190.238 - .240
Paper seal attached by Arbuckle's signature.
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