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Maryland Privateer Sloop Abingdon |
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| Abingdon [Lord Abingdon] |
| Armed Sloop | Commander James Handy [Hardy] |
| Maryland Privateer Sloop | 14 September 1778-1778 |
| Commissioned/First Date: | 14 September 1778 |
| Out of Service/Cause: | 1778/captured by the British |
| Owners: | Samuel and Robert Purviance & Co. of Baltimore, Maryland |
| Tonnage: | 50 |
| Battery: | Date Reported: 14 September 1778 Number/Caliber Weight Broadside 8/ Total: 8 cannon/ Broadside: 4 cannon/ Swivels: four |
| Crew: | 14 September 1778: 16 [total] |
| Description: |
| Officers: | (1) First Mate William Smith, 14 September 1778-1778 |
| Cruises: | (1) At sea in the fall of 1778 |
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Comments:
The 50-ton Maryland Privateer Sloop Abingdon was commissioned 14 September 1778 under Commander James Handy [Hardy] of Baltimore, Maryland. Aboard as First Mate was William Smith of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. She was listed as having a crew of fourteen men and as being armed with eight guns and four swivel guns. Abingdon's $5,000 bond was signed by Handy and Joseph Williams of Annapolis, Maryland.1
It is probable that this sloop was captured by the British. A vessel called the Lord Abingdon, under a captain named James Hardy, was tried and condemned in the British Vice Admiralty Court at New York in 1778. She is described as an American merchant vessel.2
1 Archives of Maryland: Journal and Correspondence of the Council of Maryland, April 1, 1778 through October 26, 1779, 21: 203; NRAR, 217
2 HCA 32/391/14/1-3
| Revised 14 September 2008 |
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