LOYALISTS IN NEW YORK.


MOORE, LAMBERT. Document Signed ("Lambt Moore Supert"),granting safe passage to Isaac Skidmore, partially printed and accomplished in manuscript, 1 p, 8vo (165 x 200 mm), New York, April 16, 1778, leaf creased and spotted, dampstain at upper right.Isaac Skidmore is granted permission "to put aboard the Ship Sea Flower himself master for Cow Harbour L. Island one Bushel Salt one Frying pan two Grindstones five pounds Indigo five gallons Rum," having complied with the directions in General William Howe's Proclamation of July 17, 1777. Both Skidmore and Moore, the Superintendent, are colonists operating under the British occupation of New York after the city was captured by General Howe (which is why Howe is the authority cited on this document). Not long after this document was signed, Skidmore's ship the Sea Flower, was captured as a prize by the Continental Army schooner The General Mifflin, helmed by Captain Clarke.