hire me to do archival research for you I will look up a ship's pay roll in order to see whether I can clarify a ship's rank/role I can't understand in the documents I'm looking at (answer: no I could not (so it's transcribed as [illegible]))
if any Age of Sail sickos want to tell me what this might mean for the Continental Frigate Alliance please feel free. I've got "w a ... t ... r + mariner", and the man in question (Casar/Caesar Godfrey) is listed in the pay roll as "Boy"