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“I was not yet fourteen years of age. . . . The boys were employed in waiting on the officers, but in time of action a boy was quartered [assigned] to each gun to carry cartridges.” —From Andrew Sherburne’s Experiences on a Privateer During the Revolutionary War

How old was Sherburne, and what were his duties aboard the ship?