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American Prizes December 1776 |
Name of Vessel:
Success
Master of Vessel:
John Burrows
Rig of Vessel:
Schooner
Date of Capture:
[December] 1776
Place of Capture:
Off the New Jersey coast
Captor:
Continental Navy Schooner Wasp
Home Port:
From What Port:
Saint Domingue, French West Indies
To What Port:
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Cargo:
Molasses, rum
Tonnage:
40, 70
Battery:
Crew:
Owners:
Mercer & Schantz of New Brunswick, New Jersey
Prize master:
Prize crew:
Ordered Into:
Egg Harbor, New Jersey
Into What Port:
Egg Harbor, New Jersey
Date Arrived:
Date Tried:
Date Sold:
Action:
No
Recaptured:
No
Comments: The 70-ton schooner Success (John Burrows) was bound to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania from Saint Domingue in the French West Indies with a cargo of molasses and rum. On 18 December 1776 Success was captured by HM Frigate Roebuck (Captain Andrew Snape Hamond) off Cape May, New Jersey. She was owned by Mercer & Schantz of New Brunswick, New Jersey. The five man crew was removed and a prize crew under one William Compton went aboard. Success was sent off to New York, New York. A short time later Success was recaptured by the Continental Navy Schooner Wasp (Lieutenant John Baldwin). She was sent into Egg Harbor, New Jersey by the Wasp. In her libel she was listed as a 40-ton schooner, commanded by William Compton, her British prize master. On 1 January 1777 Morris sent William Patterson to take care of the prizes at Egg Harbor, and assist the Wasp. She was libeled on 1 February 1777. One of her original American crew men was landed at Cape Hemlopen, Delaware, in a prisoner exchange on 30 December 1776.
[NDAR, VII, 515 and note, 628-629, 833 and note, 1081-1083 and 1083 note]
| Posted 29 July 2011 |
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