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Connecticut Privateer Sloop Caroline |
| Caroline | Commander Jason Chester |
| Armed Sloop | [June] 1782-[June] 1782 |
| Connecticut Privateer Sloop |
| Commissioned/First Date: | [June] 1782 |
| Out of Service/Cause: | [June] 1782/captured by the British |
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Comments:
This Connecticut privateer was probably the same as the sloop under one Chester that entered Newport, Rhode Island after a fourteen day voyage from Hispaniola about January 1782.1
Connecticut Privateer Sloop Caroline was commissioned about June or July 1782 under Commander Jason Chester of Wethersfield, Connecticut.2 Caroline sailed from New London, Connecticut in the same month as she was commissioned. Three days out she fell in with the British Privateer Experiment, sailing out of Bermuda, and was captured. The prize and prisoners were taken into Bermuda. Chester arrived at Stonington, Connecticut in a cartel vessel on 3 August 1782.3
1 The Boston Gazette, and The Country Journal, Monday, January 21, 1782, datelined New London, January 1[1], 1782; The Salem Gazette, Thursday, January 17, 1782, datelined New London, January 11
2 Claghorn, Naval Officers of the American Revolution, 57. However, Claghorn’s date of August 1782 for Caroline’s commission is impossible.
3 The Pennsylvania Packet or the General Advertiser [Philadelphia]; Friday, August 20, 1782, datelined New London, Tuesday, August 9
| Posted 10 July 2011 |
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