</titleStmt> <publicationStmt> Publication statement goes here. </publicationStmt> <notesStmt> <note target="#gh">Greenwich Hospital was a home for superannuated seamen.</note> </notesStmt> <sourceDesc> Source description goes here. </sourceDesc> </fileDesc><profileDesc> <textClass/> </profileDesc> <xi:include xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude" href="../encodingDesc.xml"> <xi:fallback> <encodingDesc>ERROR: proper <encodingDesc> not found!</encodingDesc> </xi:fallback></xi:include> <revisionDesc> <change date="2005-11-04" who="#JamesRuchala">Transcribed and encoded document.</change> </revisionDesc></teiHeader> <text type="financial"> <body> <pb id="div2"/> <head type="form">ARTICLES <lb/>AGREED upon, by and between <seg type="formData"><persName>Abraham Whipple</persName></seg> Master of the good, <seg type="formData">Brigt.</seg> <lb/>called the <seg type="formData"><name>George</name> —</seg> of <seg type="formData"><placeName>Providence</placeName> —</seg> now lying <seg type="formData">in the harbor, <lb/> of <placeName>Providence</placeName></seg> and bound for <seg type="formData"><placeName>Surinam</placeName> —</seg> and from thence <seg type="formData">back to <placeName>providence</placeName></seg> </head> AND we the Seamen and Mariners belonging to the said <seg type="formData">Brigt —</seg> do hereby declare ourselves fully agreed to perform <lb/>the said Voyage, under the Penalty of Five Pounds Sterling for each Man; by the Help of GOD. Further, we acknowledge <lb/>ourselves fully satisfied with the Wages to which we have subscribed our Names, acknowledging ourselves to have received One Month's <lb/>Pay in Hand, at Agreement, as below subscribed. And we the Master and Seament further oblige ourselves to the Forfeitures following, <lb/>to wit: The Master for not coming to Agreement with his Men in Writing, forfeits for each Man, Five Pounds Sterling. Seamen or <lb/>Mariners abseting themselves from the <seg type="formData">Said Brigt —</seg> or Service of the <seg type="formData">Voyage</seg> without Leave of the Master, each <lb/>Man, for each Day's Absence, forfeits two Day's Pay. Further, any Seaman or Mariner leaving the <seg type="formData">Said Briggt</seg> before <lb/>discharged, forfeits One Month's Pay. These being drawn by Direction of an Act of Parliament, made for the Benefit of <name xml:id="gh">Greenwich <lb/>Hospital</name>, and Regulation between Masters and Seamen: As Witness our Hands. <seg type="formData">At <placeName>Providence</placeName> the <date value="1765-10-30">30th of October <lb/>AD 1765</date></seg> <table> <row role="label"> <cell>Time of Entry.</cell> <cell>Men's Names.</cell> <cell>Quality.</cell> <cell>Advance Wages <lb/>before sailing. <lb/>£. s. d.</cell> <cell>Wages per month, or by the <lb/>Run for the Voyage. <lb/>£. s. d.</cell> <cell><del>Hospital Money.</del> <lb/>£. s. d. </cell> <cell>When discharged.</cell> <cell>Wages <del><unclear/>.</del> Wholey <lb/>£. s. d.</cell> </row> <row> <cell><date value="1765-10-29">1765 — <lb/>October 29</date></cell> <cell><persName>Abraham Whipple</persName></cell> <cell>Master</cell> <cell/> <cell><measure unit="lsd" quantity="35l" commodity="currency">35</measure></cell> <cell>Privalidge <lb/>10 hogsheads</cell> <cell><date>Augt 9</date></cell> <cell><measure unit="lsd" quantity="386l13s4d" commodity="currency">£386:13:4</measure></cell> </row> <row> <cell><date value="1765-11-2">Novem 2</date></cell> <cell><persName>Will Field</persName> <lb/><persName>John Burroughs Hopkins</persName></cell> <cell>Mate</cell> <cell/> <cell><measure unit="lsd" quantity="50l" commodity="currency">50</measure></cell> <cell>5 hhds</cell> <cell><date>Augt 4</date></cell> <cell><unclear><measure unit="lsd" quantity="445l4s4d" commodity="currency">445:4:4</measure></unclear></cell> </row> <row> <cell><date value="1765-11-2">do</date></cell> <cell><persName>Alexander Frazier</persName></cell> <cell>Cooper</cell> <cell/> <cell><measure unit="lsd" quantity="75l" commodity="currency">£75</measure></cell> <cell>4hhds</cell> <cell><date>Augt 7</date></cell> <cell><measure unit="lsd" quantity="687l" commodity="currency">687 —</measure></cell> </row> <row> <cell><date value="1765-11-3">Novemb 3</date> <del><unclear/>th</del></cell> <cell><persName>Nathan Tucker</persName></cell> <cell xml:id="mar">Marriner</cell> <cell/> <cell><measure unit="lsd" quantity="50l" commodity="currency">£50</measure></cell> <cell>4 bbs</cell> <cell><date>Augt 3 —</date></cell> <cell><measure unit="lsd" quantity="450l" commodity="currency">450:0 —</measure></cell> </row> <row> <cell><date value="1765-11-3"><choice><abbr>do</abbr><expan>ditto</expan></choice></date></cell> <cell><persName>Oliver Mark Arnold</persName></cell> <cell sameAs="#mar"><choice><abbr>do</abbr><expan>ditto</expan></choice></cell> <cell/> <cell><measure unit="lsd" quantity="35l" commodity="currency">£35</measure></cell> <cell>4 bbs</cell> <cell><date>Ditto</date></cell> <cell><measure unit="lsd" quantity="326l18s" commodity="currency">326:18:0</measure></cell> </row> <row> <cell><date value="1765-11-3"><choice><abbr>do</abbr><expan>ditto</expan></choice></date></cell> <cell><persName>George Arnold</persName></cell> <cell sameAs="#mar"><choice><abbr>do</abbr><expan>ditto</expan></choice></cell> <cell/> <cell><measure unit="lsd" quantity="35l" commodity="currency">£35</measure></cell> <cell>4bbs</cell> <cell/> <cell/> </row> <row> <cell><date value="1765-11-3"><choice><abbr>do</abbr><expan>ditto</expan></choice></date></cell> <cell><persName>Joseph Hammon</persName></cell> <cell sameAs="#mar"><choice><abbr>do</abbr><expan>ditto</expan></choice></cell> <cell/> <cell><measure unit="lsd" quantity="38l" commodity="currency">£38</measure></cell> <cell>3bbs</cell> <cell><date>Augt. 4</date></cell> <cell><measure unit="lsd" quantity="342l6s8d" commodity="currency">342.6:8</measure> <del><unclear/></del></cell> </row> <row> <cell><date value="1765-11-3"><choice><abbr>do</abbr><expan>ditto</expan></choice></date></cell> <cell><persName>Bernard Hawkins</persName></cell> <cell sameAs="#mar"><choice><abbr>do</abbr><expan>ditto</expan></choice></cell> <cell/> <cell><measure unit="lsd" quantity="37l" commodity="currency">£37</measure></cell> <cell>3bbs</cell> <cell><date>Augt. 7</date></cell> <cell><measure unit="lsd" quantity="341l12s8d" commodity="currency">341 12 8—</measure></cell> </row> <row> <cell><date value="1765-10-31">Octob 31</date></cell> <cell><seg type="slaveRef"><persName>Rubin Negrow</persName></seg></cell> <cell sameAs="#mar"><choice><abbr>do</abbr><expan>ditto</expan></choice></cell> <cell/> <cell>Servant</cell> <cell/> <cell><date>Augst 9</date></cell> <cell/> </row> <row> <cell><date value="1765-10-31"><choice><abbr>do</abbr><expan>ditto</expan></choice></date></cell> <cell><persName>Cudway Negrow</persName></cell> <cell sameAs="#mar"><choice><abbr>do</abbr><expan>ditto</expan></choice></cell> <cell/> <cell><measure unit="lsd" quantity="35l" commodity="currency">£35</measure></cell> <cell/> <cell><date>do - - 9</date></cell> <cell><measure unit="lsd" quantity="318l" commodity="currency">318 —</measure></cell> </row> <row> <cell><date value="1765-11-3">Novembr 3.</date></cell> <cell><persName>Ezekile Durfey</persName></cell> <cell sameAs="#mar"><choice><abbr>do</abbr><expan>ditto</expan></choice></cell> <cell/> <cell><measure unit="lsd" quantity="50l" commodity="currency">£50</measure></cell> <cell/> <cell><date><choice><abbr>Do</abbr><expan>Ditto</expan></choice></date></cell> <cell><measure unit="lsd" quantity="460l" commodity="currency">460:0—</measure></cell> </row> <row> <cell/> <cell/> <cell/> <cell/> <cell/> <cell/> <cell/> <cell><measure unit="lsd" quantity="3424l19s4d" commodity="currency">£<del>3424:19 4</del>—</measure></cell> </row> </table> <list><item>Hospitle Money —</item> <lb/><item><persName>William Field</persName> <measure unit="lsd" quantity="4s6d" commodity="currency">£ 0:4:6</measure></item> <lb/><item><persName>A. Fraziar</persName>: <measure unit="lsd" quantity="4s6d" commodity="currency">0.4.6</measure></item> <lb/><item><persName>N: Tucker</persName> <measure unit="lsd" quantity="4s6d" commodity="currency">0:4:6</measure></item> <lb/><item><persName>O: Arnold</persName> — <measure unit="lsd" quantity="4s6d" commodity="currency">0.4:6</measure></item> <lb/><item><persName>J: Hamon</persName>: <measure unit="lsd" quantity="4s6d" commodity="currency">0:4:6—</measure> </item> <lb/><item><persName>B: Hawkins</persName>. <measure unit="lsd" quantity="4s6d" commodity="currency">0:4:6</measure></item> <lb/><item><persName>E: Durfey</persName> <measure unit="lsd" quantity="4s6d" commodity="currency">0:4:6</measure></item> <lb/><item><measure unit="lsd" quantity="1l11s6d" commodity="currency">£1:11:6</measure> Sterling Money</item> </list> PROVIDENCE, (New-England) Printed by WILLIAM GODDARD, near the Court-House, where all Sorts of Blanks are printed and sold. <pb id="div3"/> Note <persName>Nathan Tucker</persName> Monhly pay <lb/>In E<unclear/> of the Copy of the <lb/>Sloops M<unclear/> Portage bill <lb/>Assemb<unclear/> <measure unit="lsd" quantity="50l" commodity="currency">£50</measure> <persName>Capt Ab Whipple</persName> <lb/>Portage Bill <lb/><date value="1765-11">Novem 1765</date> </body> </text> </TEI>