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Massachusetts Privateer Schooner America




America

Commander George Williams

Schooner

1780-

Massachusetts Privateer Schooner


Commissioned/First Date:

1780

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Battery:

Date Reported: 1780

Number/Caliber  Weight        Broadside

8/

Total: 8 cannon/

Broadside: 4 cannon/

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1781: 81 [total]


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Massachusetts Privateer Schooner America was reported to be at sea in 1780 under Commander George Williams. She was listed as having a battery of eight guns and a crew of eighty men.1

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1 Allen, Massachusetts Privateers of the Revolution, 72