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New Hampshire Privateer Brigantine Sweepstakes |
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| Sweepstakes | Commander Timothy Mountford |
| Armed Brig | 12 October 1781-14 October 1781 |
| New Hampshire Privateer Brigantine |
| Commissioned/First Date: | 12 October 1781 |
| Out of Service/Cause: | 14 October 1781/captured by British Privateer Brig Sir Andrew Hammond |
| Owners: | Keith Spence and Samuel Sherburne, both of Portsmouth, New Hampshire |
| Tonnage: | 80 |
| Battery: | Date Reported: 12 October 1781 Number/Caliber Weight Broadside 4/ Total: 4 cannon/ Broadside: 2 cannon/ Swivels: Date Reported: 14 October 1781 Number/Caliber Weight Broadside 10/ Total: 10 cannon/ Broadside: 5 cannon/ Swivels: |
| Crew: | (1) 12 October 1781: 31 [total]
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| Cruises: | (1) Portsmouth, New Hampshire to sea, [13] October 1781-14 October 1781 |
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Comments:
The 80-ton1 New Hampshire Privateer Brigantine Sweepstakes was commissioned on 12 October 1781 under Commander Timothy Mountford2 [Mountfort]3 of Portsmouth, New Hampshire. Sweepstakes was listed as having a battery of four guns and a crew of thirty men. Her $20,000 bond was executed by Mountford and the two owners.4
A recruiting advertisement appeared in the Portsmouth newspaper on 22 September 1781. According to the advertisement the Sweepstakes would sail in about ten days for a five month’s cruise.5
Sweepstakes sailed about 13 October 1781 from Portsmouth. On 14 October she was captured by the British Privateer Brig Sir Andrew Hammond. The British reported that she was armed with ten guns and had a crew of twenty-five men aboard. Sweepstakes was sent into Halifax, Nova Scotia, where she was tried and condemned.6
1 AVCR, 81
2 NRAR, 470
3 AVCR, 81
4 NRAR, 470
5 The New-Hampshire Gazette, and General Advertiser [Portsmouth], Saturday, September 22, 1781
6 AVCR, 81
| Posted 14 October 2011 |
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