Betsey	Commander Abraham Wright
Patrol Craft	[June] 1780-
Connecticut Privateer Boat

Commissioned/First Date:	[June] 1780
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(1) [unknown], 23 June 1780, with Connecticut Privateer Sloop Snake

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Connecticut Privateer Boat Betsey was at sea on 23 June 1780, under Commander Abraham Wright of Farmington, Connecticut, when she captured a British vessel, in company with Connecticut Privateer Sloop Snake (Commander Ackley Riley). The prize was bound from New York, New York to the eastern part of Long Island, and had a cargo of “British goods.” She was sent in and condemned.¹

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