Assurance	Commander David Porter
Armed Sloop	3 December 1782-
Massachusetts Privateer Sloop

Commissioned/First Date:	3 December 1782
Out of Service/Cause:

Owners:

Isaac Sears et al of Boston, Massachusetts

Tonnage:

90

Battery:

Date Reported: 3 December 1782 Number/Caliber  Weight        Broadside 14/ Total: 14 cannon/ Broadside: 7 cannon/ Swivels:

Crew:

3 December 1782: 76 [total]

Description:

Built about November 1782.

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Massachusetts Privateer Sloop Assurance was commissioned on 3 December 1782 under Commander David Porter of Boston, Massachusetts. Assurance was listed with a battery of fourteen guns and a crew of seventy-five men. She was bonded for $20000 by Porter, Isaac Sears and Paschal N. Smith of Boston.¹

Assurance was advertised for sale on 14 June 1783, with the sale set for 18 June. She was noted as 90-tons, and as being about eight months old and was said to have just come from the sea. She was described as “compleat and well built.”²

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¹ NRAR, 230. Also listed in Allen, Massachusetts Privateers of the Revolution, 76.

² The Boston Evening-Post and the General Advertiser, Saturday, June 14, 1783