Name of Vessel:

[unknown]

Master of Vessel:

Rig of Vessel:

Sloop

Date of Capture:

[23] July 1775

Place of Capture:

Majabigwaduce, Massachusetts [Maine]

Captor:

Massachusetts militia

Home Port:

From What Port:

Nantucket, Massachusetts

To What Port:

Majabigwaduce, Massachusetts [Maine]

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 Nantucket and was captured at Majabigwaduce, Massachusetts [Maine]. She was taken into Townsend Harbor at Boothbay about 25 July and detained pending further orders from the Massachusetts Provincial Congress. That body directed that the sloop be detained pending further orders on 17 August 1775.

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

Revised 2 December 2008