Name of Vessel:

[unknown]

Master of Vessel:

Rig of Vessel:

Sloop

Date of Capture:

26 February 1776

Place of Capture:

Thomas Allen’s Cove, North Kingston, Rhode Island

Captor:

Rhode Island militia

Home Port:

From What Port:

To What Port:

Cargo:

Tonnage:

Battery:

Crew:

Owners:

Colonel George Wightman of North Kingston, Rhode Island

Prizemaster:

Prize crew:

Ordered Into:

East Greenwich, Rhode Island

Into What Port:

East Greenwich, Rhode Island

Date Arrived:

26 February 1776

Date Tried:

Date Sold:

Action:

No

Recaptured:

No

Comments: When one Colonel George Wightman of North Kingstown, Rhode Island, visited the British warships off Newport, contravening the local regulations against giving information to them, the local militia took a small sloop of his into custody, then laying in Thomas Allen's Cove, on 26 February 1776. The sloop was sent to East Greenwich for safekeeping.

[NDAR, IV, 85-86]

Revised 10 August 2009