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New Hampshire Privateer Brigantine Venus |
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| Venus | Commander George Henry Moore |
| Armed Brig | 30 May 1781-1 June 1781 |
| New Hampshire Privateer Brigantine |
| Commissioned/First Date: | 30 May 1781 |
| Out of Service/Cause: | 1 June 1781/captured by HM Frigate Lively |
| Owners: | Robert Parker and Ichabod Nichols, of Portsmouth, New Hampshire |
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| Battery: | Date Reported: 30 May 1781 Number/Caliber Weight Broadside 4/ Total: 4 cannon/ Broadside: 2 cannon/ Swivels: |
| Crew: | 30 May 1781: 36 [total] |
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Comments:
New Hampshire Privateer Brigantine Venus was commissioned on 30 May 1781 under Commander Henry Moore of Portsmouth, New Hampshire. She was listed as having four guns and thirty-five men in her crew. Venus was bonded for $20,000 by Moore and the two owners.1
This is likely to be the brig Venus that arrived at Portsmouth on 14 April 1781, in twenty-eight days from Grenada in the then French West Indies.2
Venus was captured on 1 June 1781 by HM Frigate Lively.3 A part of her of crew (seven men) was sent to Mill Prison in England, being committed on 21 November 1781.4
Despite the assertion of her capture on 1 June, we find the following information: a Venus privateer from the Piscataqua River was at sea in the summer of 1781. About July 1781 she captured the brig Maris (Hawkins), bound from London, England to Halifax, Nova Scotia, with a cargo of provisions. Maris was sent off to an American port, but was recaptured by HMS Chatham. She was sent into New York, New York, arriving there after 11 August 1781.5
1 NRAR, 485
2 The American Journal And General Advertiser [Providence], Wednesday, April 25, 1781, datelined Portsmouth, April 16
3 Remick, Oliver P., A Record of the Services of the Commissioned Officers and Enlisted Men of Kittery and Eliot, Maine: who served their country on land and sea in the American Revolution, from 1775 to 1783 (Boston: A. Mudge & Son, printers, [1901]), 41
4 The Pennsylvania Packet or the General Advertiser [Philadelphia], Saturday, June 22, 1782
5 The Pennsylvania Packet or the General Advertiser [Philadelphia], Saturday, August 28, 1781, datelined New York, August 28. I am unable to resolve this anomaly at this time.
| Posted 23 December 2009 |
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