Arnold	Commander Moses Butler
Schooner	[1779]-
Connecticut Privateer Schooner

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(1) At sea in June 1779, with Connecticut Privateer Schooner Independence

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(1) Sloop Sally (Eliakim Jones), 4 June 1779, with Connecticut Privateer Schooner Independence

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Connecticut Privateer Schooner Arnold was at sea in June 1779, under Commander Moses Butler of Hartford, Connecticut. She was in company with Connecticut Privateer Schooner Independence (Commander Gurdon Burnham). On 4 June 1779 the pair captured the 50-ton sloop Sally (Eliakim Jones), with a cargo of plank, wool and coffee. She was sent into Hartford and condemned.¹

¹ Middlebrook, Maritime Connecticut During The Revolution, II, 53

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