Transcription
CATALOG NUMBER V 1801
OBJECT NAME Certificate of Construction / Master Carpenter
DATE November 21, 1795
AUTHOR Philip Van Cortlandt
RECIPIENT Benjamin Sneden [Sniden?]
MEDIUM Paper, ink
PEOPLE Jacob Acker (captain),
PLACES New York, Orange County
KEYWORDS the sloop Success, certificate as master carpenter,
DISTRICT OF New York the
Twenty first ___ Day of November 17 95
I, [Benjamin Sniden] Master Carpenter of Orange
County_____ in the State of New York do certify,
That the sloop ___ named the Success_____
Was built under my Direction, at the mouth of Croton River
During the year feventeen and ninety. Five_____
For Philip Van Cortlandt and Jacob / Acker ____
That the faid Sloop___ is flat____
______ built, has one deck one maft is Forty
Two feet Keel _______ in length
Sixteen feet Beam ___ in breadth, and
four feet. Three In= in depth, and of Twenty
Nine ____ Tons.
As Witness my Hand, the Day and Year aforesaid.
Benjamin [Sneden]
[END OF PAGE 1]
[LABEL]
Benj’n [Sniden]’s Certificate
As master Carpenter
Of Sloop Succefs. 1795.Transcriber
Kathryn AlexanderLanguage
English
