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Massachusetts Privateer Brigantine Adventure |
| Adventure | Commander James Morris |
| Sloop-of-War [Brig/Sloop] | 19 September 1780-[7 November] 1780 |
| Massachusetts Privateer Brigantine |
| Commissioned/First Date: | 19 September 1780 |
| Out of Service/Cause: | [7 November] 1780/captured by HMS America |
| Owners: | Henry Mitchell of Boston, Massachusetts |
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| Battery: | Date Reported: 19 September 1780 Number/Caliber Weight Broadside 14/ Total: 14 cannon/ Broadside: 7 cannon/ Swivels: |
| Crew: | 19 September 1780: 71 [total] |
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| Prizes: | (1) Ship Naomi (Edmund Ballard), [September] 1780 |
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Comments:
Massachusetts Privateer Brigantine Adventure was commissioned on 19 September 1780, under Commander James Morris of Boston, Massachusetts, with a bond of $20000 being given by the commander and Elisha Sigourney and George Little, both of Boston. She was listed as having fourteen guns and a crew of seventy men.1
Adventure was soon at sea. About mid-November 1780 it was reported from Boston that she had taken a number of valuable prizes, some of which had not yet arrived.2 The first prize libeled was the ship Naomi (Edmund Ballard), on 2 November 1780, in the Maritime Court of the Middle District. Trial was to be held on 21 November.3 On 7 December 1780 Morris libeled the 150-ton brig Dove (John Tetherty) in the Massachusetts Maritime Court of the Middle District. Dove’s trial was to be held on 2 January 1781.4
There is a High Court of Admiralty record for a vessel Adventure commanded by James Morris in 1780, which may be this privateer.5 This also is probably the “brig Adventure” captured by HMS America on 7 November 1780. America was still receiving prize money for this capture in 1785.6
1 NRAR, 221. Also listed in Allen, Massachusetts Privateers of the Revolution, 68; Emmons, 127, lists the skipper as “F. Morris.”
2 The Providence Gazette and Country Journal, Wednesday, November 22, 1780, datelined Boston, November 16
3 The Independent Chronicle and the Universal Advertiser [Boston], Thursday, November 2, 1780
4 The Independent Chronicle and the Universal Advertiser [Boston], Thursday, 7 December 1780
5 HCA 32/262/10/1-5
6 The London Gazette, Tuesday, February 22, to Saturday, February 26, 1785
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