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Massachusetts Privateer Brigantine Adventure |
| Adventure | Commander Joseph L. Tripp |
| Armed Brig | 15 January 1779-1779 |
| Massachusetts Privateer Brigantine |
| Commissioned/First Date: | 15 January 1779 |
| Out of Service/Cause: | 1779/captured by the British |
| Owners: | Nathaniel Greene et al of Boston, Massachusetts |
| Tonnage: | 95 |
| Battery: | Date Reported: 15 January 1779 Number/Caliber Weight Broadside 8/ Total: 8 cannon/ Broadside: 4 cannon/ Swivels: |
| Crew: | 15 January 1779: 31 [total] |
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The 95-ton1 Massachusetts Privateer Brigantine Adventure was commissioned under Commander Joseph Tripp of Boston, Massachusetts on 15 January 1779. She was listed as having a battery of eight guns and a crew of thirty men. Her Continental bond ($5000) and her Massachusetts bond (£4000) were signed by Tripp and by Mungo Mackay of Boston. Someone else signed for Greene. The owners were listed as Nathaniel Greene and others.2
Adventure was captured by the British in 1779. She is listed in the High Court of Admiralty records as an American “tobacco” vessel, commanded by Joseph L. Tripp.3
1 Suffolk Deeds, Liber XI. Boston: Rockwell & Churchill Press, 1900, 45
2 Allen, Massachusetts Privateers of the Revolution, 67-68
3 HCA 32/262/9/1-5
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