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Corporation

 

A body of persons legally associated for the transaction of business.

 

Corporation, a schooner of two guns, was purchased at Philadelphia, Pa., in 1814 and soon after was put into use as a receiving ship. She continued with this duty until September 1820 when she was ordered sold because she could no longer be kept afloat.