The surprising adventures of Almira Paul, a young woman, who, garbed as a male, has for three of the last preceeding years actually served as a common sailor, on board of English and American armed vessels without a discovery of her sex being made. : In 1818 (at 22 years of age) she shipped at Halifax, by the name of Jack Brown, as cook's mate, on board the revenue cutter--since which, she has been in active service on board a number of English privateers and ships of war, &c.--Once on board an Algerine corsair--and once on board the American ship Macedonian.--Has been in many engagements, and was once severely wounded. : The said Almira Paul is now in Boston--and in presenting the public with the particulars of her current adventure, they may rest assured that we present them with facts, confirmed by a number of respectable gentlemen now in this town

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Title The surprising adventures of Almira Paul, a young woman, who, garbed as a male, has for three of the last preceeding years actually served as a common sailor, on board of English and American armed vessels without a discovery of her sex being made. : In 1818 (at 22 years of age) she shipped at Halifax, by the name of Jack Brown, as cook's mate, on board the revenue cutter--since which, she has been in active service on board a number of English privateers and ships of war, &c.--Once on board an Algerine corsair--and once on board the American ship Macedonian.--Has been in many engagements, and was once severely wounded. : The said Almira Paul is now in Boston--and in presenting the public with the particulars of her current adventure, they may rest assured that we present them with facts, confirmed by a number of respectable gentlemen now in this town
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Signed Author Almira Paul, a young woman, who, garbed as a male, has for three of the last preceeding years actually served as a common sailor.
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Date of Publication 1819
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Paul, Almira. The surprising adventures of Almira Paul, a young woman, who, garbed as a male, has for three of the last preceeding years actually served as a common sailor, on board of English and American armed vessels without a discovery of her sex being made. : In 1818 (at 22 years of age) she shipped at Halifax, by the name of Jack Brown, as cook's mate, on board the revenue cutter--since which, she has been in active service on board a number of English privateers and ships of war, &c.--Once on board an Algerine corsair--and once on board the American ship Macedonian.--Has been in many engagements, and was once severely wounded. : The said Almira Paul is now in Boston--and in presenting the public with the particulars of her current adventure, they may rest assured that we present them with facts, confirmed by a number of respectable gentlemen now in this townThe Women's Print History Project, 2019, title ID 18990, https://womensprinthistoryproject.com/title/18990. Accessed 2024-11-22. 

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