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Massachusetts Privateer Brigantine Victory




Victory

Commander Jonathan Nutting

Armed Brig

24 April 1780-

Massachusetts Privateer Brigantine


Commissioned/First Date:

24 April 1780

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Owners:

Jonathan Nutting and Ebenezer Woodward of Boston, Massachusetts


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Date Reported: 24 April 1780

Number/Caliber  Weight        Broadside

10/

Total: 10 cannon/

Broadside: 5 cannon/

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24 April 1780: 51 [total]


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Massachusetts Privateer Brigantine Victory was commissioned on 24 April 1780 under Commander Jonathan Nutting of Boston, Massachusetts. She was listed as being armed with ten guns and as having a crew of fifty men. Her $5000 Continental and £4000 Massachusetts bonds were signed by Nutting and by Ebenezer Woodward and Benjamin Jepson, both of Boston.1



1 Allen, Massachusetts Privateers of the Revolution, 316


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