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Massachusetts Privateer Schooner Willing Maid




Willing Maid

Commander John Savage

Patrol Craft

24 July 1782-

Massachusetts Privateer Schooner


Commissioned/First Date:

24 July 1782

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Owners:

John Augusta Dunn et al of Salem, Massachusetts


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Date Reported: 24 July 1782

Number/Caliber  Weight        Broadside

4/

Total: 4 cannon/

Broadside: 2 cannon/

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24 July 1782: 26 [total]


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Massachusetts Privateer Schooner Willing Maid was commissioned on 24 July 1782 under Commander John Savage, of Salem. She was reported as having four guns and manned with twenty-five men. Her bond of $20,000 was executed by Savage, Dunn and James Eaton of Salem.1



1 NRAR, 494; Allen, Massachusetts Privateers of the Revolution, 327; Emmons, 168


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