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HISTORY OF COHASSET. 



Colle<5lor for the 



piftria'cf Boftonand Charleftowii, jJo lietcby certify, fhaf 



(^Zy^c'^t^'^'^^ '~^'C-a^ e ^ f r*.- — jin American Seaman, 



aged C<.'/7 tiytde-yxy — -^ — Ycars, or thereabouts, of 



//) /' , / ' / 



the Height of y t^^ Feet J^y - — Inches, ft^fxXi- 



Complexion, Cj-ds, — Hair, 'z:^'^ ^ ,Eyes, 



- y 





has this Day produced to me Proof, in the Manner dlreiHred 

 by the A(5l, intitled, " An Kdi for the Relief and Proteftion 

 of American Seamen," and purfuant to the faid AiSt, I do 

 hereby certify, thit the i^\^cs:y.^^t^.^c^Z '-^^t^^c.c^^^^ 

 is a Citizen of the United States of America. 



In Witncfs -whereof^ I have hereunto fet itty Hand 

 and Seal of Office, this '^^'^^/1&- 

 Day of e^-^ct^^y . in the Year of our 



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Lord i8eK^\ 



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■/;a^'/^'^^^ 



■'^2 , 



CoUeBor. 



A certificate of American citizenship signed by General Lincoln for a Cohas^et 

 sailor. American seamen without such a certificate were in danger of being kid- 

 napped by tlie British before the War of 1812. 



This Isaiah Lincoln was captured during that war. 



