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Massachusetts Privateer Sloop Betsey |
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| Betsey | Commander Enoch Coffin |
| Armed Sloop | 10 October 1777-[February] 1779 |
| Massachusetts Privateer Sloop |
| Commissioned/First Date: | 10 October 1777 |
| Out of Service/Cause: | 24 February 1779/transferred to New Hampshire commission |
| Owners: | Tristram Dalton et al of Newburyport, Massachusetts |
| Tonnage: | 80, 100 |
| Battery: | Date Reported: 10 October 1777 Number/Caliber Weight Broadside 10/ Total: 10 cannon/ Broadside: 5 cannon/ Swivels: |
| Crew: | 10 October 1777: 26 [total] |
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Comments:
The 80 or 100-ton1 Massachusetts Privateer Sloop Betsey was commissioned on 10 October 1777 under Commander Enoch Coffin of Newburyport, Massachusetts. She was listed as having a battery of ten guns and a crew of twenty-five men. Her $5000 Continental bond was signed by Tristram Dalton of Newburyport (for Coffin) and by Samuel White and Job Prince, both of Boston, Massachusetts. Her owner was listed as Dalton.2
This is almost certainly the same sloop that was commissioned as the New Hampshire Privateer Sloop Betsey (Commander Benjamin Lurvy) on 24 February 1779.
1 Currier, John James, History of Newburyport, Mass. 1764-1905, Newburyport: 1906, I:639
2 Allen, Massachusetts Privateers of the Revolution, 80
| Posted 26 May 2011 |
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