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List and value of twenty-one Vessels at Whet stone-Point, intended to be sunk there in the Narrows

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The following is an exact copy of a Paper delivered in to the Committee by Captain Isaac Vanbibber:

"The Committee for Baltimore County appointing us, the subscribers, to appraise and value the hulls of sundry vessels now lying at Whetstone Point, and intended to be sunk there in the narrows, do say that the sundry vessels, as follows, are worth the several sums annexed thereto, viz:

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No˙ 1. One old schooner, the property of John Boone, worth £25
No˙ 2. One old schooner, the property of Robert Burns & Parker, worth 20
No˙ 3. One old schooner, under care of Joseph Mc-Guffin, worth 200
No˙ 4. One old sloop, belonging to Captain Seth Paddock, 100
No˙ 5. One old schooner, belonging to Oliver White, 60
No˙ 6. One old schooner, belonging to Nathaniel Smith, 40
No˙ 7. One old schooner, belonging to Robert Christie, 75
No˙ 8. One old schooner, belonging to James Clarke, 50
No˙ 9. One old schooner, belonging to Martin Trout, 70
No˙ 10. One old schooner, belonging to Sylvanus Coffin, master, 225
No˙ 11. One old schooner, belonging to Job Greene or Captain Adams, 90
No˙ 12. One old schooner, belonging to Mekhior Keener, 20
No˙ 13. One old schooner, belonging to Hutchins & Carmichael, 300
No˙ 14. One sloop, belonging to John Cornthwaite, 60
No˙ 15. One sloop, belonging to John Martin Baker, 40
No˙ 16. One schooner, belonging to John Boone, 15
No˙ 17. One schooner, belonging to Severn Major & Thomas Jacobs, of Virginia, 35
No˙ 18. One schooner, belonging to Henry Herminson, of Virginia, 75
No˙ 19. One schooner, belonging to Robert Christie, 85
No˙ 20. One schooner, belonging to William Lux and Robert Sanders, 40
No˙ 21. One brig, belonging to John Pringle or George Woolsey, 450
  £2075

"Witness our hands, this 14th March, 1776:

"HERCULES COURTENAY,
"ISAAC VANBIBBER,
"WILLIAM SPEAR."

A true copy, attested by

GEORGE LUX, Secretary.

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