Name of Vessel:

Peggy

Master of Vessel:

Sacks

Rig of Vessel:

Sloop

Date of Capture:

[20] February 1776

Place of Capture:

Ocracoke Inlet, North Carolina

Captor:

Oacks’ pilot boat

Home Port:

From What Port:

To What Port:

Cargo:

Rum, gin, salt, sugar, molasses

Tonnage:

Battery:

Crew:

Owners:

Prizemaster:

Prize crew:

Ordered Into:

New Bern, North Carolina

Into What Port:

New Bern, North Carolina

Date Arrived:

22 February 1776

Date Tried:

Date Sold:

Action:

No

Recaptured:

No

Comments: Sloop Peggy (Sacks) was captured by HM Frigate Syren (Captain Tobias Furneaux) off Frying Pan Shoals, North Carolina on 9 February 1776. She lad a cargo of rum, gin, salt, sugar, and molasses. The mate and three men were removed and Midshipman Robert Aitchison, a pilot and three sailors were sent aboard as a prize crew. She was ordered into Cape Fear. Contrary winds and hard gales forced the sloop into Ocracoke Inlet where Aitchison surrendered the sloop and cargo to Captain Oacks, in a pilot boat with two men. Aitchison and the prize crew sailed up to New Bern (arriving on 22 February) and surrendered to the local committee. Aitchison was held and the sailors released.

[NDAR, IV, 56-57]

Revised 10 August 2009