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New Hampshire Privateer Schooner Adventure




Adventure

Commander James Johnson [Johnston]

Schooner

2 December 1776-

New Hampshire Privateer Schooner


Commissioned/First Date:

2 December 1776

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Owners:

John Taylor Gilman, William Elliot, and Isaac Marble, all of Exeter, New Hampshire


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Battery:

Date Reported: 2 December 1776

Number/Caliber  Weight        Broadside

4/

Total: 4 cannon/

Broadside: 2 cannon/

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Crew:

2 December 1776: 17 [total]


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New Hampshire Privateer Schooner Adventure was commissioned under James Johnson [Johnston] of Exeter, New Hampshire on 2 December 1776, with a bond of $5000 being given by the owners. She was listed as having four guns and a crew of sixteen men.1



1 NRAR, 221; NDAR, “List of Bonds for New Hampshire Privateers,” XI, 220; Emmons, 127, lists this vessel as a New York privateer under “J. Johnson.”


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