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New Hampshire Privateer Schooner Mary




Mary

Commander James Arnold

Schooner

5 July 1777-

New Hampshire Privateer Schooner


Commissioned/First Date:

5 july 1777

Out of Service/Cause:


Owners:

Jacob Sheafe, Jr. of Portsmouth, New Hampshire


Tonnage:


Battery:

Date Reported: 5 July 1777

Number/Caliber     Weight   Broadside

6/

Total: 6 cannon/

Broadside: 3 cannon/

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Crew:

5 July 1777: 21 [total]


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New Hampshire Privateer Schooner Mary was commissioned on 5 July 1777 under Commander James Arnold of Portsmouth, New Hampshire. She was listed as having a battery of six guns and a crew of twenty men. Her $5,000 bond was signed by Arnold and by Benjamin Mackay and Jacob Sheafe, Jr., both of Portsmouth.1



1 NRAR, 387; NDAR, “List of Bonds for New Hampshire Privateers,” XI, 220


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