La Maria	(1) Commander Mark Dennet [Dennett]
Armed Brig	30 July 1777-
New Hampshire Privateer Brigantine	(2) [Commander] Simon Carboulez [Carbonlez] -[1779]

Commissioned/First Date:	30 July 1777
Out of Service/Cause:	[1779]/captured by the British

Owners:

Simon Carboulez of Portsmouth, New Hampshire

Tonnage:

Battery:

Date Reported: 30 July 1777 Number/Caliber  Weight        Broadside 12/ Total: 12 cannon/ Broadside: 6 cannon/ Swivels:

Crew:

30 July 1777: 61 [total]

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New Hampshire Privateer Brigantine La Maria was commissioned on 30 July 1777 under Commander Mark Dennet [Dennett] of Portsmouth, New Hampshire. She was listed as being armed with twelve guns and as having a crew of sixty men. Her $10000 bond was signed by Dennet, and by Robert Furniss and Neal McIntyre, both of Portsmouth. The owner was listed as Simon Carboulez of Portsmouth, New Hampshire.¹

While the commission was legitimate, there was some information suppressed in making the application it would seem. Carboulez may have been the owner of La Maria, but he was also her merchant skipper, and she was a French vessel. La Maria may have made a cruise under Dennett, but she later reverted to Carboulez’s command. About 1779 she was captured by the British and taken into New York, New York. She was tried and condemned in the Admiralty court, being listed as the French merchant vessel La Maria, under Simon “Carbonlez.”²

¹ NRAR, 368; NDAR, “List of Bonds for New Hampshire Privateers,” XI, 220

² HCA 32/395/14/1-13

Revised 24 July 2011

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