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Copies of pages 27 through 31 from a booklet titled "Origin of the American Navy" by Henry E. White. The booklet is a collection of letters and other writings from men who concerned with the ships commissioned by Gen. Washington to capture British supply ships sailing into or out of Boston in 1775. The pages contain information about Marblehead sea captains with the last page about the Broughton family.