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Massachusetts Privateer Brig Adventure




Adventure

Commander Joseph Chase

Armed Brig

13 October 1782-

Massachusetts Privateer Brig


Commissioned/First Date:

13 October 1782

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Owners:

Ebenezer Lane et al, of Boston, Massachusetts


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Date Reported: 13 October 1782

Number/Caliber  Weight        Broadside

12/

Total: 12 cannon/

Broadside: 6 cannon/

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Crew:

13 October 1782: 21 [total]


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Massachusetts Privateer Brig Adventure was commissioned under Joseph Chase of Nantucket, Massachusetts, with a bond of $20000 being given by the commander, Ebenezer Lane, and Samuel Smith of Boston. She was listed as having twelve guns and a crew of twenty. Ebenezer Lane of Boston was listed as her owner.1



1 NRAR, 222; Allen, Massachusetts Privateers of the Revolution, 69; Emmons, 127


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