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New Hampshire Privateer Brigantine Roxene




Roxene

Commander Richard Kitson [Kittson]

Armed Brig

9 February 1782-

New Hampshire Privateer Brigantine


Commissioned/First Date:

9 February 1782

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Owners:

Thomas Roach et al of Portsmouth, New Hampshire


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Date Reported: 9 February 1782

Number/Caliber  Weight        Broadside

4/

Total: 4 cannon/

Broadside: 2 cannon/

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Crew:

9 February 1782: 17 [total]


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New Hampshire Privateer Brigantine Roxene was commissioned on 9 February 1782 under Commander Richard Kitson of Portsmouth, New Hampshire. She was reported with four guns and a crew of sixteen men. Roxene was bonded for $20,000 by Kitson, Mark Seavey and William Plaisted, both of Portsmouth.1



1 NRAR, 449


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