Name of Vessel:

[unknown]

Master of Vessel:

[Nathan Phillips]

Rig of Vessel:

Schooner

Date of Capture:

[23] July 1775

Place of Capture:

Majabigwaduce, Massachusetts [Maine]

Captor:

Massachusetts militia

Home Port:

From What Port:

Boston, Massachusetts

To What Port:

Majabigwaduce, Massachusetts [Maine]

Cargo:

Lumber, wood

Tonnage:

70

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 schooner was one of five vessels captured about 23 July 1775 by detachments 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 at Majabigwaduce, Massachusetts [Maine]. She was placed in the care of Major Edward Emerson, along with some munitions seized at Fort Pownall. On 19 July 1775 (?) Emerson petitioned the Massachusetts Provincial Congress to allow him to fit her out as a privateer to defend the coast, with a proposed crew of thirty men. The Lincoln County militia turned her over to Major Andrew Reed before 2 August 1775 to use in coastal defense. Philips was sent as a prisoner, under Emerson's escort, to the Provincial Congress. That body ordered him released on 17 August, but directed that the schooner be used by the militia as a coast defense vessel.

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

Revised 2 December 2008