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Pennsylvania Privateer Brigantine Virginia |
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| Virginia | Commander Peter Hodgkinson |
| Armed Brig | 18 June 1781-March 1782 |
| Pennsylvania Privateer Brigantine |
| Commissioned/First Date: | 18 June 1781 |
| Out of Service/Cause: | March 1782/captured by the New Adventure |
| Owners: | Robert Morris, Samuel Inglis, Thomas Welling [Willing], and George Ord, all of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania |
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| Battery: | Date Reported: 18 June 1781 Number/Caliber Weight Broadside 4/ Total: 4 cannon/ Broadside: 2 cannon/ Swivels: |
| Crew: | 18 June 1781: 15 [total |
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| Officers: | (1) First Mate Edmund Wingate, 18 June 1781- |
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Comments:
Pennsylvania Privateer Brigantine Virginia was commissioned on 18 June 1781 under Commander Peter Hodgkinson, possibly from Philadelphia. Edmund Wingate of Philadelphia served aboard as First Mate. She is listed as having four guns and a crew of thirteen men. Virginia was bonded for $20,000 by Inglis and Ord.1
About March 1782 the Virginia was captured by the British vessel New Adventure.2 Virginia was taken into New York, New York and tried and condemned there, being noted as an American merchant vessel.3
1 NRAR, 488
2 Claghorn, Naval Officers of the American Revolution, 153, 342
3 HCA 32/475/12/1-64
| Posted 7 May 2010 |
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