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Privateering and Piracy in the Colonial Period

Note 3 — THE PRINCESS OF ORANGE.

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Later in the war Sibbald greatly distinguished himself in a privateering voyage in command of the George (cruising in company with the Joseph and Mary, refitted prize, in 1742) and of the Wilmington. Memorial Hist. Phila., I. 247; Pa. Mag. Hist., I. 247, XXXII. 466. In the next war he was commander of the province's frigate Pennsylvania, from 1757 to 1759. Pa. Archives, III. 190, 658. The ships' register of the port of Philadelphia shows the sloop George, of 50 tons, John Sibbald owner, sailing out on this present voyage Nov. 12, 1740. Pa. Mag. Hist., XXIII. 513.

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