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Connecticut Privateer Sloop Washington |
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| Washington | Commander Joseph Jauncey |
| Armed Sloop | 7 September 1776- |
| Connecticut Privateer Sloop |
| Commissioned/First Date: | 7 September 1776 |
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| Battery: | Date Reported: Number/Caliber Weight Broadside
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| Cruises: | (1) [unknown] to [Massachusetts], [October] 1776-[December] 1776 |
| Prizes: | (1) British Transport Snow Friendship (Richard Sainthill), 12 October 1776
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Connecticut Privateer Sloop Washington (Commander Joseph Jauncey) was commissioned on 7 September 1776, the date given by her bond.1 She was at sea in the fall of 1776.2 On 12 October 17763 she captured4 the 2505 to 270 ton6 snow7 Friendship8 (Richard Sainthill),9 a British Navy victualler,10 bound from London to New York11 with a cargo of rum, bread, beef, pork and other provisions.12 Friendship was reported overdue at New York on 23 October.13 Friendship had sailed from England in July 1776, in a convoy escorted by HM Frigate Perseus.14 Friendship was sent into Providence, where she was libeled on 22 October and tried on 11 November 1776.15 Friendship and her cargo were sold at Providence on 12 November 1776.16 On 15 November permission was given the two mates of the Friendship to depart Rhode Island.17
Washington also captured the schooner Hope, bound from Halifax, Nova Scotia to Dominica, British West Indies with a cargo of fish. Hope was sent in to Portsmouth, New Hampshire, arriving 1 December 1776. En route she had a chance meeting with a convoy of empty British transports at 48°58'N, 62°W, on 19 November 1776.18 This is probably the same vessel as the 50-ton schooner Hope (Caldwell), bound from England to Nova Scotia with a cargo of provisions, which was captured by an unnamed person or vessel and tried in the New Hampshire admiralty court on 9 January 1777.19
Washington also captured the 70-ton schooner Halifax Packet (Eliphalet Smith),20 bound from Halifax, Nova Scotia to New York, New York with a cargo of fish and staves.21 She was sent or taken into Boston. Halifax Packet was libeled on 26 December 1776, in Massachusetts, with trial set for 14 January 1777.22
1 NDAR, “List of Bonds for Connecticut Letters of Marque,” X, 589-590. In Allen, Massachusetts Privateers of the Revolution, 322, she is incorrectly listed as a Massachusetts vessel.
2 NDAR, "Newport Mercury, Monday, October 21, 1776," VI, 1349; "Providence Gazette, Saturday, October 26, 1776," VI, 1421
3 NDAR, "List of All the Vessels Cargoes &c Brought into the Port of Providence and Libelled Tried and condemned in the Maritime Court AD 1776," VII, 642-647
4 NDAR, "Newport Mercury, Monday, October 21, 1776," VI, 1349; "Providence Gazette, Saturday, October 26, 1776," VI, 1421; "List of All the Vessels Cargoes &c Brought into the Port of Providence and Libelled Tried and condemned in the Maritime Court AD 1776," VII, 642-647
5 NDAR, "Newport Mercury, Monday, October 21, 1776," VI, 1349
6 NDAR, "List of All the Vessels Cargoes &c Brought into the Port of Providence and Libelled Tried and condemned in the Maritime Court AD 1776," VII, 642-647
7 NDAR, "Newport Mercury, Monday, October 21, 1776," VI, 1349; "Providence Gazette, Saturday, October 26, 1776," VI, 1421; "Permission Granted to British Prisoners in Rhode Island to Depart for Great Britain," VII, 165-168; "List of All the Vessels Cargoes &c Brought into the Port of Providence and Libelled Tried and condemned in the Maritime Court AD 1776," VII, 642-647
8 NDAR, "Permission Granted to British Prisoners in Rhode Island to Depart for Great Britain," VII, 165-168; "List of All the Vessels Cargoes &c Brought into the Port of Providence and Libelled Tried and condemned in the Maritime Court AD 1776," VII, 642-647
9 NDAR, "Permission Granted to British Prisoners in Rhode Island to Depart for Great Britain," VII, 165-168
10 NDAR, "List of All the Vessels Cargoes &c Brought into the Port of Providence and Libelled Tried and condemned in the Maritime Court AD 1776," VII, 642-647
11 NDAR, "Newport Mercury, Monday, October 21, 1776," VI, 1349; "Permission Granted to British Prisoners in Rhode Island to Depart for Great Britain," VII, 165-168; "List of All the Vessels Cargoes &c Brought into the Port of Providence and Libelled Tried and condemned in the Maritime Court AD 1776," VII, 642-647
12 NDAR, "Newport Mercury, Monday, October 21, 1776," VI, 1349; "List of All the Vessels Cargoes &c Brought into the Port of Providence and Libelled Tried and condemned in the Maritime Court AD 1776," VII, 642-647
13 NDAR, "Vice Admiral Richard Lord Howe to Philip Stephens," VI, 1382-1383 and 1383 note
14 NDAR, "Philip Stephens to Vice Admiral Richard Lord Howe," VI, 492-493; "Lords Commissioners, Admiralty, to Captain George Keith Elphinstone, H.M.S. Perseus, Spithead," VI, 493-496
15 NDAR, "List of All the Vessels Cargoes &c Brought into the Port of Providence and Libelled Tried and condemned in the Maritime Court AD 1776," VII, 642-647
16 NDAR, "Providence Gazette, Saturday, November 9, 1776," VII, 96-97
17 NDAR, "Permission Granted to British Prisoners in Rhode Island to Depart for Great Britain," VII, 165-168
18 NDAR, "Independent Chronicle, Friday, December 13, 1776," VII, 472-473
19 Faibisy, “A Compilation of Nova Scotia Vessels . . .,” in NDAR, X, 1201-1210
20 NDAR "Libels Filed Against Prize Vessels in the Massachusetts Admiralty Court," VII, 599-600
21 Faibisy, “A Compilation of Nova Scotia Vessels . . .,” in NDAR, X, 1201-1210
22 NDAR "Libels Filed Against Prize Vessels in the Massachusetts Admiralty Court," VII, 599-600
| Posted 14 May 2010 |
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