Name of Vessel:

[unknown]

Master of Vessel:

Rig of Vessel:

Sloop

Date of Capture:

[27] December 1775

Place of Capture:

Off Plymouth, Massachusetts

Captor:

Massachusetts Privateer [Sloop Yankee]

Home Port:

From What Port:

New York, New York

To What Port:

Boston, Massachusetts

Cargo:

Pork, beef, geese, apples

Tonnage:

Battery:

Crew:

Owners:

Prizemaster:

Prize crew:

Ordered Into:

Plymouth, Massachusetts

Into What Port:

Plymouth, Massachusetts

Date Arrived:

27 December, 1775

Date Tried:

Date Sold:

Action:

No

Recaptured:

No

Comments: Vessel was captured by an unknown privateer (probably the Massachusetts Privateer Sloop Yankee [Corban Barnes]). She was bonded on 4 January 1776, but commissioned on 17 December 1775. Prisoners sent up under care of Elkanah Bartlet.

[NDAR, III, 291, 602-603]

Revised 10 August 2009