Batchelor [Bacheller]

Armed Sloop	Commander William Ladd
Rhode Island Privateer Sloop	27 August 1776-

Commissioned/First Date:	27 August 1776
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John Collins

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Rhode Island Privateer¹ Sloop Batchelor² [Bacheller] was commissioned under Commander William Ladd on 27 August 1776. Her owner was listed as John Collins.³ She had been at sea seven days when she spoke Massachusetts Privateer Sloop Warren on 17 September 1776. She first chased Warren several hours, firing at her twice, thinking she was a British vessel.⁴

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¹ Sheffield, An Address Delivered by William P. Sheffield before the Rhode Island Historical Society, 59

² NDAR, "A Journal Kept by Ephraim Briggs On Board the Good Sloop Warren A Bold Privateer from Dartmouth to the Lattd. of 33:," VI, 880 and note

³ Sheffield, An Address Delivered by William P. Sheffield before the Rhode Island Historical Society, 59

⁴ NDAR, "A Journal Kept by Ephraim Briggs On Board the Good Sloop Warren A Bold Privateer from Dartmouth to the Lattd. of 33:," VI, 880 and note