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Maryland Privateer Schooner Adventure |
| Adventure | Commander Thomas Robinson |
| Schooner | 20 October 1777-[1781] |
| Maryland Privateer Schooner |
| Commissioned/First Date: | 20 October 1777 |
| Out of Service/Cause: | [1781]/captured by the British |
| Owners: | James Williams, Joseph Williams, Richard Barnaby, David Robinson, and William Avery, all of Maryland |
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| Battery: | Date Reported: 20 October 1777 Number/Caliber Weight Broadside Total: Broadside: Swivels: [one howitzer] |
| Crew: | 20 October 1777: 8 [total] |
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Comments:
Maryland Privateer Schooner Adventure was commissioned under Thomas Robinson of Baltimore, Maryland, with a bond of $5000 being given by the commander and owner James Williams of Annapolis. Although the bond was given on 20 October 1777, the commission to Robinson was not issued until 24 January 1778.1 She was noted as having one howitzer and a crew of seven men.2
Adventure was captured by the British about 1781. Her High Court of Admiralty records refer to her as an American merchant vessel. She was said to be a re-capture, formerly being the William.3
1 NRAR, 221; see also NDAR, “List of Bonds Given on Issuing Commissions for Privateers in the State of Maryland, Delivered Into the Office,” X, 703-704
2 Archives of Maryland: Journal and Correspondence of the Maryland Council of Safety, January 1-March 20, 1777, 16:473
3 HCA 32/262/15/1-29
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