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New Hampshire Privateer Schooner Friends Adventure |
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| Friends Adventure | Commander Kinsman Peverly |
| Schooner | 6 August 1777- |
| New Hampshire Privateer Schooner |
| Commissioned/First Date: | 6 August 1777 |
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| Owners: | Samuel Hill & Co. of Portsmouth, New Hampshire |
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| Battery: | Date Reported: 6 August 1777 Number/Caliber Weight Broadside 6/ Total: 6 cannon/ Broadside: 3 cannon/ Swivels: |
| Crew: | 6 August 1777: 21 [total] |
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| Prizes: | (1) Schooner Lively (David Fletcher), [September] 1777, with Massachusetts Privateer Spy, Massachusetts Privateer Schooner Blackbird, and Massachusetts Privateer Schooner Fancy
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New Hampshire Privateer Schooner Friends Adventure was commissioned on 6 August 1777 under Commander Kinsman Peverly of Portsmouth, New Hampshire. She was listed as being armed with six guns and as having a crew of twenty men. Friends Adventure’s $5000 bond was signed by Peverly and by Samuel Hill of Portsmouth and Eliphalet Ladd of Exeter, New Hampshire.1
In the late summer of 1777 Friends Adventure was at sea, sailing with the Massachusetts Privateer Spy (Commander Elias Smith), Massachusetts Privateer Schooner Blackbird (Commander William Groves), and Massachusetts Privateer Schooner Fancy [Fanny] (Commander John Farrey [Ferry]). They captured the 60-ton schooner Lively (David Fletcher). She was sent into Massachusetts and libeled in the Maritime Court of the Middle District on 6 October 1777. Trial of the Lively was set for 10 October.2
About May 1778 Friends Adventure was again at sea. She captured at least two prizes. The first was the 60-ton schooner Hero (Jonathan Dellaway), which was sent into Portsmouth. She was libeled on 16 June 1778, and her trial was to be held on 29 June.3 A week later, the second prize, the 60-ton schooner Betsey (Hugh Hunter) was also libeled in the New Hampshire Maritime Court. Betsey was to be tried on 6 July 1778, and Hero’s trial was also moved to that date. Betsey was en route from Martinique in the French West Indies to Halifax, Nova Scotia when she was captured, with a cargo of wine, sugar, rum, molasses, and cocoa.4
Advertisements for the sale of both prizes appeared in the paper on 23 June. Hero was described as 50 tons and a “prime Sailor.” Betsey and her cargo, along with the Hero, were to be sold at auction on 8 July.5
1 NRAR, 305. Peverly’s name is variously spelled as “Paverly” and “Beverly.”
2 NDAR, “Libels Filed in the Massachusetts Maritime Court of the Middle District,” X, 45-46 and 46 notes
3 New Hampshire Gazette. or State Journal, and General Advertiser [Portsmouth], Tuesday, June 16, 1778
4 New Hampshire Gazette. or State Journal, and General Advertiser [Portsmouth], Tuesday, June 23, 1778; Faibisy, John D., “A Compilation of Nova Scotia Vessels Seized During the American Revolution and Libelled in the New England Prize Courts,” in NDAR, X, 1201-1210
5 New Hampshire Gazette. or State Journal, and General Advertiser [Portsmouth], Tuesday, June 23, 1778
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