G. W. Allen, Massachusetts Privateers of the Revolution (Massachusetts Historical Society Collections, vol. 77, 1927)

Read in the research file (Ellingwood_Master_Research.md, October 2026). 9 June 1777: the Council ordered “a Commission be Issued to the said Richd. Ellinwood as Commander of the Schoonr. Cleora as a Letter of Marque”, on the petition of the owner, Thomas Adams of Boston: “the Schooner Called the Cleora, Richard Ellinwood Master, of the Burthen of About Sixty Tons, Armed with four Carriage & Eight Swivel Guns Navigated by fourteen Men, Loaded with Ailwives and Lumber, bound to the French West Indies.” Bond $5,000, “Richard Ellinwood, of Boston, principal.” Also in Massachusetts Soldiers and Sailors of the Revolutionary War V:285.