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Massachusetts Privateer Schooner Aurora




Aurora

Commander Redmond Hackett

Schooner

1 August 1778-

Massachusetts Privateer Schooner


Commissioned/First Date:

1 August 1778

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Owners:

George Lynham and Gene Jolly of Boston, Massachusetts


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Battery:

Date Reported: 1 August 1778

Number/Caliber  Weight           Broadside

6/

Total: 6 cannon/

Broadside: 3 cannon/

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Crew:

1 August 1778: 31 [total]


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Massachusetts Privateer Schooner Aurora was commissioned on 1 August 1778 under Commander Redmond Hackett of Boston, Massachusetts. She was listed as being armed with six guns and six swivel guns and as having a crew of thirty men. Her $5000 Continental bond and £4000 Massachusetts bond were executed by Hackett and by George Lynham and Gene Jolly of Boston. The last two were listed as Aurora’s owners.1

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1 Allen, Massachusetts Privateers of the Revolution, 76