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Virginia Privateer Schooner York




York

Commander Isaiah Keel

Schooner

13 April 1782-

Virginia Privateer Schooner


Commissioned/First Date:

13 April 1782

Out of Service/Cause:


Owners:

Wells Cowper & Co. and Henry and Thomas Brown, all of Virginia


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Battery:

Date Reported: 13 April 1782

Number/Caliber  Weight        Broadside

14/

Total: 14 cannon/

Broadside: 7 cannon/

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Crew:

13 April 1782: 41 [total]


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Virginia Privateer Schooner York was commissioned on 13 April 1782 under Commander Isaiah Keel, possibly of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. She was reported as being armed with fourteen guns and as having a crew of forty men. York was bonded for $20,000 by one Bristol Brown (as agent for Keel) and James Hunter of Richmond, Virginia.1



1 NRAR, 494


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