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New Hampshire Privateer Brigantine Jolly Tarr |
| Jolly Tarr | Commander William Clarke |
| Armed Brig | 29 June 1780- |
| New Hampshire Privateer Brigantine |
| Commissioned/First Date: | 29 June 1780 |
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| Battery: | Date Reported: 29 June 1780 Number/Caliber Weight Broadside 6/ Total: 6 cannon/ Broadside: 3 cannon/ Swivels: |
| Crew: | 29 June 1780: 17 [total] |
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New Hampshire Privateer Brigantine Jolly Tarr (or Jolly Farr) was commissioned on 29 June 1780 under Commander William Clarke of Portsmouth, New Hampshire. She was listed as having a battery of six guns and a crew of sixteen men.1
The Jolly Tarr was said to heve been captured by the British on 13 July 1780. Four of her crew committed to Mill Prison on 17 October 1780. However, this would seem to have been the crew of a prize recaptured by the British, rather than from the privateer itself.2
1 Claghorn, Naval Officers of the American Revolution, 61
2 The Pennsylvania Packet or the General Advertiser [Philadelphia], Saturday, May 25, 1782; Kaminkow, Mariners of the American Revolution, 227, lists the vessel as the Jolly Tar
| Revised 24 July 2011 |
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