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Massachusetts Privateer Ship Adventure |
| Adventure [Adventurer] |
| Armed Ship | Commander Edward Bacon, Jr. |
| Massachusetts Privateer Ship | 30 November 1781-19 December 1781 |
| Commissioned/First Date: | 30 November 1781 |
| Out of Service/Cause: | 19 December 1781 |
| Owners: | Stephen Higginson et al of Boston, Massachusetts |
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| Battery: | Date Reported: 30 November 1781 Number/Caliber Weight Broadside 8/ Total: 8 cannon/ Broadside: 4 cannon/ Swivels: |
| Crew: | 30 November 1781: 21 [total] |
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Massachusetts Privateer Ship Adventure (Adventurer)was commissioned on 30 November 1781 under Commander Edward Bacon, Jr. of Barnstable, Massachusetts. She was noted as having eight guns and a crew of twenty men. Her Continental bond ($20000) was signed by Bacon and by Stephen Higginson of Boston, Massachusetts. Higginson and others were listed as the owners.1
Very soon after the commission was issued Adventure was at sea. She was captured by the British on 19 December 1781, probably while en route to Europe, and was listed as the Adventurer. Her crew was committed to Mill Prison on 21 January 1782.2 Sixteen men are listed as being confined.3 The Adventure was mentioned in the London Chronicle of 1 June 1782.4 The crew petitioned for exchange, which was granted on 2 November 1782.5
Bacon apparently did not wait for exchange, however. He managed to get to Amsterdam, The Netherlands, where he became master of the brigantine General Green, owned by a prominent merchant named Peter Le Poole [Lapool, Le Pool]. General Green sailed for Philadelphia, Pennsylvania but was captured by HMS Renown on 7 October 1782 and sent into Halifax, Nova Scotia.6
1 Allen, Massachusetts Privateers of the Revolution, 68; NRAR, 222; Emmons, 127
2 Information courtesy of Buddy Jackson in emails of 5/2/2007 and 5/3/2007, citing the NEHGS Register, 19:213, Kaminkow, Mariners of the American Revolution; “A List of the Americans Committed to Old Mill Prison Since the American War,” in New England Historical and Genealogical Register, vol. XIX, p. 213, Boston: The New England Historical-Genealogical Society, 1865.
3 “A List of the Americans Committed to Old Mill Prison Since the American War,” in New England Historical and Genealogical Register, vol. XIX, p. 213
4 Allen, Massachusetts Privateers of the Revolution, 68; NRAR, 222
5 Information courtesy of Buddy Jackson in email of 5/2/2007 citing Massachusetts Soldiers and Sailors of the Revolutionary War.
6 Information courtesy of Buddy Jackson in email of 11/16/2007 citing Historical Collections of the Essex Inst.-Jan. 1909-- p. 174---Records of the Vice -Admiralty Court at Halifax, Nova Scotia [Condemnation of Prizes and recaptures of the Revolution and the War of 1812].
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