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List		 American Prizes
July 1777






Name of Vessel:

Honor

Master of Vessel:

John Jackson

Rig of Vessel:

Brig

Date of Capture:

8 July 1777

Place of Capture:

45o12'N, 34oW

Captor:

Connecticut Navy Ship Oliver Cromwell

Home Port:

Dartmouth, England

From What Port:

Cork, Ireland

To What Port:

[St. Johns], Newfoundland

Cargo:

Beef, pork, butter, bread, cheese, cordage, clothing, wine, pitch, tar, and tea

Tonnage:


Battery:


Crew:


Owners:


Prize master:

Midshipman Jonathan Woodworth

Prize crew:


Ordered Into:

Bedford [Dartmouth], Massachusetts

Into What Port:

Bedford [Dartmouth], Massachusetts

Date Arrived:

[18] August 1777

Date Tried:


Date Sold:


Action:

No

Recaptured:

No


Comments: Brigantine Honor (John Jackson) was captured by Connecticut Navy Ship Oliver Cromwell (Captain Seth Harding) on 8 July 1777 at 45o12'N, 34oW. Honor was bound from Cork or Dartmouth to Newfoundland, with a cargo of beef, pork, butter, bread, cheese, cordage, clothing, wine, pitch, tar, and tea and had sailed in company with a convoy of twenty sail, from which Honor parted on 4 July. The prize was dispatched to Bedford, Massachusetts, consigned to Samuel Eliot, Jr., the Connecicut agent in that state, with Midshipman Jonathan Woodworth as prize master. Honor arrived at Bedford a little before 20 August 1777, and Eliot was notified. Since the cargo was needed by the Continental Army, Eliot suggested sending the cargo directly from Bedford to New London. While awaiting directions he sent his brother to take charge of the brig. Meanwhile, Woodworth had traveled to Hartford and met with the Governor and Council of Safety on 23 August. The cargo was too valuable to leave at Bedford the Council decided, and ordered six wagon loads of the most valuable items to be transported into Connecticut. On 23 August Trumbull ordered Eliot to assist in the transshipment. Eliot traveled down to Dartmouth (Bedford) and examined the brig in early September. By the 10th he reported she was nearly unloaded. He had also ordered the cables and cordage up to Boston, to be used in refitting the Connecticut Navy Brig Defence. Shoes were found aboard the Honor and they were distributed to the crew of the Oliver Cromwell in September.


NDAR, IX, 242, 772, 786, 786-787, 906-907, 962-963, 972 and note]


Revised 20 January 2009