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American Prizes 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