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Maryland Privateer Sloop Mars |
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| Mars | Commander Norris Copper [Cooper] |
| Armed Sloop | 10 December 1777- |
| Maryland Privateer Sloop |
| Commissioned/First Date: | 10 December 1777 |
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| Owners: | James Calhoun et al of Baltimore, Maryland |
| Tonnage: | [40] |
| Battery: | Date Reported: 10 December 1777 Number/Caliber Weight Broadside 8/ Total: 8 cannon/ Broadside: 4 cannon/ Swivels: |
| Crew: | 10 December 1777: 27 [total] |
| Description: |
| Officers: | (1) First Mate James Round, 10 December 1777- |
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Comments:
Maryland Privateer Sloop Mars was commissioned on 10 December 1777 under Commander Norris Copper1 [or Cooper] of Annapolis, Maryland. James Round of Baltimore, Maryland served aboard as First Mate.2 Mars was listed as having a battery of eight guns and as having a crew of twenty-five men. Her owners are given as James Calhoun and others of Baltimore, Maryland.3 She was formerly commissioned as Pennsylvania Privateer Schooner Mars [qv].
1 Archives of Maryland: Journal and Correspondence of the Maryland Council of Safety, January 1-March 20, 1777, 16:433
2 NRAR, 385; see also NDAR, “List of Bonds given on issuing Commissions for Privateers in the State of Maryland, delivered into the Office,” X, 703-704
3 Archives of Maryland: Journal and Correspondence of the Maryland Council of Safety, January 1-March 20, 1777, 16:433
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