Privateering and piracy in the colonial period: illustrative documents
By: edited under the auspices of the National Society of the Colonial Dames of America, by John Franklin Jameson
Contributors: National Society of the Colonial Dames of America
Publisher: The Macmillan Company
Published: 1923
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 619
Subjects: Privateering; Piracy; United States -- History -- Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775
Description: "A privateer is an armed vessel (or its commander) which, in time of war, though owners and officers and crew are private persons, has a commission from a belligerent government to commit acts of warfare on vessels of its enemy"--Pref.