Name of Vessel:

Mulberry

Master of Vessel:

Philip Abier [Ohier]

Rig of Vessel:

Schooner

Date of Capture:

[15] April 1779

Place of Capture:

SSE of Sandy Hook, New Jersey

Captor:

Connecticut Privateer Sloops Hancock and Beaver

Home Port:

New York, New York

From What Port:

Bermuda, British West Indies

To What Port:

New York, New York

Cargo:

 

Tonnage:

70

Battery:

8x

Crew:

 

Owners:

 

Prizemaster:

 

Prizecrew:

Ordered Into:

New London, Connecticut

Into What Port:

New London, Connecticut

Date Arrived:

 

Date Tried:

10 June 1779

Date Sold:

8 June 1779

Action:

No

Recaptured:

No

Comments: Connecticut Privateer Sloop Hancock (Commander Elisha Hinman) and Connecticut Privateer Sloop Beaver (Commander William Havens) sailed in April 1779. About the end of April Havens and Hinman were cruising to the SSE of Sandy Hook. There they captured the 70-ton schooner Mulberry (Philip Ohier [Abier]), a privateer out of New York with eight guns, but bound there from Bermuda with a cargo and some recaptured prizes. She was sent off to New London. As Mulberry departed on 1 May 1779 the two American privateers were seen in chase of a sloop. Mulberry was libeled on 20 May with her trial set for 10 June 1779. Mulberry was advertised for sale on 27 May, with the sale date set for 8 June.

[The Pennsylvania Evening Post [Philadelphia], May 15, 1779, datelined New York, May 3; The Connecticut Gazette and the Universal Intelligencer [New London], May 20, 1779; May 27, 1779; Middlebrook, Maritime Connecticut During The Revolution, II, 107]

Posted 11 November 2009