24 19 7 5 7 27 pushed off from the in sailor fashion abbreviated by Rights-of-Man . captain & crew in to the "Rights"
That was the merchant-ship's name;^ tho' by her master and crew
abbreviated in sailor fashin fashion
into The Rights .

The its hard-headed Dundee owner being
was a staunch admirer of Thomas Paine
whose book by that title in rejoinder
to Burke's arraignment of the French
Revolution had then been published
for some time and had gone everywhere .

In christening his vessel^ after the
title of
Paine's
volume
the man of Dundee
was something like his contemporary
shipowner, Stephen Girard of Philadelphia,
whose sympathies, alike witn with his
native land and its liberal philosophers,
were were ^ he evined evinced by nameing naming his ships ^ respectively after
Voltaire , ^ Diderot &c Diderot, and so forth. and the Encyclopedists.
24 19 7 5 7 27 pushed off from the in sailor fashion abbreviated by Rights-of-Man . captain & crew in to the "Rights"
That was the merchant-ship's name;^ tho' by her master and crew
abbreviated in sailor fashin fashion
into The Rights .

The its hard-headed Dundee owner being
was a staunch admirer of Thomas Paine
whose book by that title in rejoinder
to Burke's arraignment of the French
Revolution had then been published
for some time and had gone everywhere .

In christening his vessel^ after the
title of
Paine's
volume
the man of Dundee
was something like his contemporary
shipowner, Stephen Girard of Philadelphia,
whose sympathies, alike witn with his
native land and its liberal philosophers,
were were ^ he evined evinced by nameing naming his ships ^ respectively after
Voltaire , ^ Diderot &c Diderot, and so forth. and the Encyclopedists.

Transcribed by: John Bryant