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Massachusetts Privateer Sloop Betsey |
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| Betsey | Commander Benjamin Lurvy |
| Armed Sloop | 1 February 1781- |
| Massachusetts Privateer Sloop |
| Commissioned/First Date: | 1 February 1781 |
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| Owners: | Tristram Dalton et al of Newburyport, Massachusetts |
| Tonnage: | 80, 100 |
| Battery: | Date Reported: 1 February 1781 Number/Caliber Weight Broadside 10/ Total: 10 cannon/ Broadside: 5 cannon/ Swivels: |
| Crew: | 1 February 1781: 41 [total] |
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Comments:
The 80 or 100-ton1 Massachusetts Privateer Sloop Betsey was commissioned on 1 February 1781 under Commander Benjamin Lurvy of Amesbury, Massachusetts. She was listed as having a battery of ten guns and a crew of forty men. Her $20000 bond was signed by Lurvy, Tristram Dalton of Newburyport, Massachusetts and Silvanus Loell of Newburyport.2 Her owners were listed as Dalton and others of Newburyport.3
This sloop had formerly been commissioned in Massachusetts, under Commander Enoch Coffin, and in New Hampshire, under Lurvy.
1 Currier, John James, History of Newburyport, Mass. 1764-1905, Newburyport: 1906, I:639
2 NRAR, 236
3 Allen, Massachusetts Privateers of the Revolution, 81
| Posted 26 May 2011 |
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