Amazon	Commander Noah Stoddard
Armed Brig	27 March 1780-
Massachusetts Privateer Brigantine

Commissioned/First Date:	27 March 1780-
Out of Service/Cause:	[25] April 1780/captured by HM Frigates Iris and Delaware

Owners:

Thomas Tillotson and Perez Morton of Boston, Massachusetts

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Date Reported: 27 March 1780 Number/Caliber  Weight        Broadside 8/ Total: 8 cannon/ Broadside: 4 cannon/ Swivels:

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27 March 1780: 51 [total]

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Massachusetts Privateer Brigantine Amazon was commissioned on 27 March 1780 under Commander Noah Stoddard¹ of Boston, Massachusetts.² She was listed as being armed with eight guns and as having a crew of fifty men. Her Continental bond ($10000) and Massachusetts bond (£4000) were signed by Stoddard and by Thomas Tillotson and Perez Morton, her owners and residents of Boston.³

Amazon was captured by HM Frigates Iris (Captain Hawker) and Delaware (Captain Mason) about 25 April 1780. She had mixed in with a British convoy from Savannah, Georgia and was taken off Sandy Hook, New Jersey. She was sent in to New York and was there by 1 May 1780. The British reported her as having eight guns and a crew of thirty men.⁴ High Court of Admiralty records of her trial exist.⁵

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¹ Allen, Massachusetts Privateers of the Revolution, 70

² Claghorn, Naval Officers of the American Revolution, 299

³ Allen, Massachusetts Privateers of the Revolution, 70

⁴ The New-York Gazette; and The Weekly Mercury,  Monday, May 1, 1780

⁵ HCA 32/266/17/1-3