Name of Vessel:

Lively Locust

Master of Vessel:

Moses Weyman

Rig of Vessel:

Sloop

Date of Capture:

25 December 1775

Place of Capture:

Captor:

Massachusetts Privateer [unknown] [unknown]

Home Port:

From What Port:

New York, New York

To What Port:

Boston, Massachusetts

Cargo:

Provisions, pork, poultry

Tonnage:

30

Battery:

Crew:

Owners:

Prizemaster:

Prizecrew:

Ordered Into:

Plymouth, Massachusetts

Into What Port:

Plymouth, Massachusetts

Date Arrived:

Date Tried:

15 April 1776

Date Sold:

Action:

No

Recaptured:

No

Comments: Sloop Lively Locust (Moses Weyman [Wayman, Weymouth]), 30 tons, was en route to Boston, Massachusetts from New York with a cargo of provisions (mostly pork and poultry) for the British forces there. She was captured, on 25 December 1775, by an unknown Massachusetts privateer, based in Plymouth, and carried into that port. Lively Locust was libeled on 25 March 1776, and tried on 15 April 1776.

NDAR, III, 1132-1133 and 1133 note, 1169-1170; NDAR, IV, 498-499 and 499 note, 1174-1176

Revised 10 August 2009