Name of Vessel:

Dillon

Master of Vessel:

Le Fevre [Le Fabre]

Rig of Vessel:

Brigantine

Date of Capture:

24 July 1777

Place of Capture:

Captor:

Massachusetts Privateer Brigantine Fancy

Home Port:

Dunkerque, France

From What Port:

North Yarmouth, England

To What Port:

Genoa and Leghorn, Italy

Cargo:

Dry goods

Tonnage:

180

Battery:

Crew:

Owners:

Prize master:

Prize crew:

Ordered Into:

Newburyport, Massachusetts

Into What Port:

Newburyport, Massachusetts

Date Arrived:

4 September 1777

Date Tried:

7 October 1777

Date Sold:

Action:

No

Recaptured:

No

Comments: Massachusetts Privateer Brigantine Fancy (Commander John Lee) captured, in European waters, the 180-ton brig or brigantine Dillon (Le Fevre [Le Fabre]), a French vessel bound to Genoa and Leghorn. She was taken on 24 July 1777. Although owned in Dunkerque, France, she was bound from North Yarmouth, England with valuable bale goods aboard. She arrived at Newburyport, Massachusetts on 4 September 1777, where she was said to be the richest prize of the war. Dillon was libeled on 18 September 1777 with trial set for 7 October 1777.

[NDAR, IX, 560 and note, 561, 897 and note; X, 15-16 and 16 note]

Revised 20 January 2009