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July 1777






Name of Vessel:

[unknown]

Master of Vessel:


Rig of Vessel:


Date of Capture:

[30 July] 1777

Place of Capture:

Off the North Carolina coast

Captor:

[unknown] Virginia privateer and [unknown] privateer sloop

Home Port:


From What Port:

New Bern, North Carolina

To What Port:


Cargo:

Tobacco, currency, passengers

Tonnage:


Battery:


Crew:


Owners:


Prize master:


Prize crew:


Ordered Into:

West Indies

Into What Port:


Date Arrived:


Date Tried:


Date Sold:


Action:

No

Recaptured:

No


Comments: This vessel had several passengers aboard, all being Loyalists from the Carolinas. She was captured soon after she sailed from New Bern, North Carolina by an unknown Virginia privateer (Weeks) and an unknown privateer sloop. She was taken to the West Indies.


[NDAR, IX, 749]


Revised 20 January 2009