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South Carolina Privateer Brig Active |
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| Active | Commander Charles Morgan |
| Armed Brig | 12 November 1776- |
| South Carolina Privateer Brig |
| Commissioned/First Date: | 12 November 1776 |
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South Carolina Privateer Brig Active was commissioned on 12 November 1776, when a commission was issued to Charles Morgan, a native of Bermuda.1 This man was the same person who had been commissioned to the South Carolina Privateer Sloop (Navy Trading Sloop, perhaps) Swift on 17 August 1776. The Swift was apparently purchased from the same man.2 Morgan apparently moved on to other commands. One Morgan was reported as captured by the British in the West Indies in a newspaper dated 28 April 1777. In the late summer of 1777 he was commander of the South Carolina Privateer Brig Fair American.3
1 NDAR, “Privateer Commissions Granted by Governor John Rutledge of South Carolina,” VII, 467-468
2 NDAR, “Commission of Robert Cochran as Commander of the South Carolina Brigantine Notre Dame,” VI, 212 and note
3 NDAR, “Gazette of the State of South-Carolina, Monday, April 28, 1777,” VIII, 460-461
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