Name of Vessel:

Nancy

Master of Vessel:

Peleg Crocker [Cruger]

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:

Peleg Crocker (Cruger) and Stephen Hall

Prizemaster:

Prizecrew:

Ordered Into:

Townsend Harbor, Boothbay, Massachusetts [Maine]

Into What Port:

Townsend Harbor, Boothbay, Massachusetts [Maine]

Date Arrived:

[25] July 1775

Date Tried:

Released

Date Sold:

Action:

No

Recaptured:

No

Comments: Sloop Nancy had been detained at Boston by the British. Her master obtained a pass to escape detention, and planned to sail to Scituate, but the wind was very light and he was forced to the eastward. Nancy fetched up near Fort Pownall on the Maine coast. She 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 near Fort Pownall. She was taken into Townsend Harbor at Boothbay about 25 July and was detained pending further orders from the Massachusetts Provincial Congress. Crocker 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 sloop be detained pending further orders. On 5 June 1776 the owners petitioned the Massachusetts General Court for release of the vessel. On 13 June the Massachusetts authorities released the Nancy.

[NDAR, I, 925-926, 932-934, 1037-1039, 1040, 1163; NDAR, V, 378 and note]

Revised 2 December 2008