Name of Vessel:

[unknown]

Master of Vessel:

[Jonathan Carleton]

Rig of Vessel:

Sloop

Date of Capture:

[23] July 1775

Place of Capture:

Near Fort Pownall, Massachusetts [Maine]

Captor:

Massachusetts militia

Home Port:

From What Port:

Boston, Massachusetts

To What Port:

Cargo:

Lumber, wood

Tonnage:

Battery:

Crew:

Owners:

Prizemaster:

Prizecrew:

Ordered Into:

Townsend Harbor, Boothbay, Massachusetts [Maine]

Into What Port:

Townsend Harbor, Boothbay, Massachusetts [Maine]

Date Arrived:

[25] July 1775

Date Tried:

Date Sold:

Action:

No

Recaptured:

No

Comments: This sloop was one of five vessels captured about 23 July 1775 by detatchments of Colonel James Cargill's regiment of Lincoln County militia. She had been engaged in procuring wood and provisions for the British at Boston and was captured near Fort Pownall, Massachusetts [Maine]. She was taken into Townsend Harbor at Boothbay about 25 July and detained pending further orders from the Massachusetts Provincial Congress. Carleton was detained as a prisoner at Boothbay. The Massachusetts Provincial Congress ordered him released on 17 August 1775, but directed that the sloop be detained pending further orders.

[NDAR, I, 925-926, 932-934, 1037-1039, 1040, 1163]

Revised 2 December 2008