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Collection Reference Number GLC01450.525
From Archive Folder Documents Relating to 1776 
Title Account of the sloop Game Cock, a privateer
Date 15 March 1776
Author Dalton, Tristram (1738-1817)  
Additional authors Jackson, Tracy & Tracy (1774-1777) Cross, Ralph (fl. 1776) Cross, Stephen (fl. 1776) Sitcomb, Jonathan (fl. 1776)
Document Type Business and financial document
Content Description Signed by Dalton, Jackson, Tracy & Tracy, Stephen & Ralph Cross, and Jonathan Sitcomb. Provides account information for the vessel, listing individual balances of the firms or persons invested. Indicates a fifth share pertaining to Colonel Moses Little, who does not sign. Discusses damages, expenditures, and the division of costs and profits. Agreed to and signed 15 March, though partially recorded 26 February 1776.
Subjects Revolutionary War  Maritime  Privateering  Finance  
People Dalton, Tristram (1738-1817)  Jackson, Tracy & Tracy (1774-1777)  Cross, Ralph (fl. 1776)  Cross, Stephen (fl. 1776-1789)  Sitcomb, Jonathan (fl. 1776)  Jackson, Jonathan (1743-1810)  Little, Moses (1724-1798)  
Place written Newburyport, Massachusetts
Theme Naval & Maritime; The American Revolution; Merchants & Commerce
Sub-collection The Gilder Lehrman Collection, 1493-1859
Additional Information Dalton served as a United States Senator from Massachusetts 1789-1791. Jonathan Jackson formed Jackson, Tracy & Tracy, a merchant firm, with his brothers-in-law in 1774. Jackson served as a Continental Congressman in 1782.
Copyright The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History
Module Settlement, Commerce, Revolution and Reform: 1493-1859