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New Hampshire Privateer Sloop Speedwell |
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| Speedwell | Commander Levi Barlow |
| Armed Sloop | 6 November 1782- |
| New Hampshire Privateer Sloop |
| Commissioned/First Date: | 6 November 1782 |
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| Owners: | Jonathan Parker and Joseph Kelly of Nottingham West, New Hampshire |
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| Battery: | Date Reported: 6 November 1782 Number/Caliber Weight Broadside 4/ Total: 4 cannon/ Broadside: 2 cannon/ Swivels: |
| Crew: | 6 November 1782: 31 [total] |
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| Prizes: | (1) Boat Blackbird (Taylor Baxter), November 1782, at or near Nantucket Island, Massachusetts
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New Hampshire Privateer Sloop Speedwell was commissioned on 6 November 1782 under Commander Levi Barlow of Nottingham West, New Hampshire. She is listed as a sloop, with four guns and a crew of thirty men. Her $20000 bond was signed by Barlow, and by Joseph Kelly and Timothy Patch, both of Nottingham West.1
Barlow had previously commanded the Massachusetts Privateer Boat Speedwell, but this is not the same vessel. That one was destroyed in action in July 1782.
Barlow and the Speedwell participated in a raid on Nantucket, Massachusetts in an effort to prevent illegal traffic with the British in New York. As a result Barlow libeled the following vessels on 12 December 1782, in the Massachusetts Maritime Court of the Southern District: (1) a two-masted boat named Blackbird (Taylor Baxter); (2) an un-named two-masted boat (Bragg); (3) 45-ton schooner Peggy (Reuben MacFarlin); (4) the 5-ton boat Rainbow (Freeman Norton); (5) an un-named 5-ton two-masted boat; and (6) an un-named 60-ton sloop. All these vessels were to be tried on 21 January 1783.2
1 NRAR, 461
2 The Independent Chronicle and the Universal Advertiser [Boston], Thursday, December 12, 1782
| Posted 14 October 2011 |
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