Name of Vessel:

[unknown]

Master of Vessel:

Brown

Rig of Vessel:

Sloop

Date of Capture:

29 August 1777

Place of Capture:

Captor:

Connecticut Privateer Sloop Abigail

Home Port:

From What Port:

To What Port:

Cargo:

“British” goods [dry goods]

Tonnage:

22

Battery:

Crew:

Owners:

Prizemaster:

Prizecrew:

Ordered Into:

Into What Port:

Date Arrived:

Date Tried:

Date Sold:

Action:

No

Recaptured:

No

Comments: Connecticut Privateer Sloop Abigail (Commander Ackley Riley) captured, on 29 August 1777, a British 22-ton sloop (Brown) with a cargo of “British” goods. This sloop was libeled on 10 September 1777 and condemned.

[Middlebrook, Maritime Connecticut During the Revolution, II, 47-48; The Connecticut Courant [Hartford], Monday, September 15, 1777]

Revised 21 September 2008