Name of Vessel:

Lee

Master of Vessel:

William Scott [prize master]

Rig of Vessel:

Schooner

Date of Capture:

[20] April 1780

Place of Capture:

Off the south side of Long Island, New York

Captor:

Connecticut Privateer Schooner Bunker Hill

Home Port:

From What Port:

Martinique, French West Indies

To What Port:

New York, New York

Cargo:

Rum, sugar, molasses

Tonnage:

Battery:

Crew:

Owners:

Prize master:

Prize crew:

Ordered Into:

New London, Connecticut

Into What Port:

New London, Connecticut

Date Arrived:

28 April 1780

Date Tried:

Date Sold:

Action:

No

Recaptured:

No

Comments: Connecticut Privateer Schooner Bunker Hill (Commander Sanford Thompson) was at sea in April 1780. About 20 April on the south side of Long Island, she met the schooner Lee (William Scott), bound from Martinique, French West Indies to Boston, Massachusetts with a cargo of rum, sugar and molasses. Lee had been captured, on 15 April 1780, at 30°N, by the British Privateer Brig Arbuthnot (James Dowing), out of New York. He sent Scott over as prize master and ordered her into New York. Bunker Hill easily re-captured the Lee and brought her into New London, Connecticut on 28 April.

[Middlebrook, Maritime Connecticut During The Revolution, II, 63]

Revised: 11 November 2008