Betsey	Commander John Barlow
Patrol Craft	[December] 1780-March 1781
Connecticut Privateer Boat

Commissioned/First Date:	[December] 1780
Out of Service/Cause:	March 1781/captured by the British

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(1) Sloop Tartar, in Oyster Bay, Long Island Sound, 18 December 1780

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Connecticut Privateer Boat Betsey was commissioned under Commander John Barlow of New Haven, Connecticut. She was at sea on 18 December 1780 when she captured the 70-ton sloop Tartar in Oyster Bay, Long Island. Tartar had a cargo of provisions and dry goods and was bound for New York, New York. She was taken in and condemned.¹ This may be the Betsey recorded as captured by the British in March 1781.²

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¹ Middlebrook, Maritime Connecticut During The Revolution, II, 61

² Kaminkow, 220