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Massachusetts Privateer Ship Caesar |
| Caesar | Commander Timothy Peirce |
| Frigate | 26 December 1781-[February] 1782 |
| Massachusetts Privateer Ship |
| Commissioned/First Date: | 26 December 1781 |
| Out of Service/Cause: | [February] 1782/captured by the British |
| Owners: | Jarvis & Russell of Boston, Massachusetts |
| Tonnage: | 600 |
| Battery: | Date Reported: 26 December 1781 Number/Caliber Weight Broadside 26 Total: 26 cannon/ Broadside: 13 cannon Swivels: |
| Crew: | 26 December 1781: 71 [total]
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| Cruises: | Boston, Massachusetts to New York, New York, [January 1782]-[February] 1782 |
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Comments:
The 600-ton Massachusetts Privateer Ship Caesar was commissioned on 26 December 1781 under Commander Timothy Peirce of Boston, Massachusetts. She was listed as being armed with twenty-six guns and as having a crew of seventy men. The signers of the petition for her commission were without doubt her owners, Jarvis & Russell of Boston [Leonard Jarvis]. Her name was spelled Caezar in the petition. Caesar sailed soon after for the West Indies but was captured by the British and taken in to New York, New York [reported by the London Chronicle on 1 June 1782].1
1 Allen, Massachusetts Privateers of the Revolution, 90
| Posted 1 July 2008 |
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