Betsey	Commander Nathan Moore
Armed Sloop	September 1778
Connecticut Privateer Sloop

Commissioned/First Date:	September 1778
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(1) Sloop Seaflower (Isaac Robinson), September 1778, off Narragansett Bay, Rhode Island

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Connecticut Privateer Sloop Betsey (Commander Nathan Moore) was at sea off Narragansett Bay in September 1778. She was conducting salvage operations on several British vessels which had foundered in Rhode Island that month. While doing so the sloop Seaflower (Isaac Robinson) was encountered and captured. The sloop and the salvaged goods were brought into New London, Connecticut and were tried on 5 October 1778.¹ This may be the same sloop as that later commanded by Elisha Brown. [see Connecticut Privateer Sloop Betsey]

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¹ Middlebrook, Maritime Connecticut During The Revolution, II, 60