When the American Revolutionary War started, Waitstill Lewis was a tavern keeper in Halifax. His sympathies were with the rebels. He hastened back to Boston to take his part in the insurgency and was signed on as purser aboard the newly built privateer, the Sturdy Beggar. She was a well-appointed and manned craft but her fate remains a mystery. After leaving Boston, she was never heard from again.Nor was Waitstill Lewis whose wife applied for and received a Revolutionary War pension.
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