Note 1 — THE REVENGE.
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Massachusetts Historical Society, in a collection of papers, to which several of the subsequent documents belong, presented to the society by the late Professor Charles Eliot Norton, great-grandson of Captain Benjamin Norton. This commission, or letter of marque, may be compared with one of 1782 (New York, loyalist), in Anthony Stokes, View of the Constitution of the British Colonies, pp. 340-347, and with the Portuguese letter of marque in doc. no. 14. This Benjamin Norton may have been a son of the one who figures in doc. no. 118.