Name of Vessel:

Priscilla

Master of Vessel:

Richard Cassady

Rig of Vessel:

Brig [Sloop]

Date of Capture:

6/7 July 1777

Place of Capture:

off Insterhull, Mull of Cantire, Scotland

Captor:

Massachusetts Privateer Ship General Mifflin

Home Port:

From What Port:

Sligo, Ireland

To What Port:

Liverpool, England

Cargo:

Linen and yarn

Tonnage:

Battery:

Crew:

Owners:

Prize master:

Prize crew:

5 [total]

Ordered Into:

Bordeaux, France

Into What Port:

Fowey, England

Date Arrived:

Date Tried:

Date Sold:

Action:

No

Recaptured:

Yes

Comments: Sloop or Brig Priscilla (Richard Cassady) was captured by Massachusetts Privateer Ship General Mifflin (Commander William Day) on 7 July 1777, off Insterhull, Mull of Cantire, Scotland. Priscilla had a cargo of linen and yarn and was bound to Liverpool, England from Sligo, Ireland. The crew was removed, except for Cassady, and a prize crew of five men were sent aboard. She was ordered to Bordeaux, France. The prize crew aboard the Priscilla had scarcely gotten underway when they robbed Cassedy of £88, plundered his clothing, and opened part of the cargo. Cassedy was bound hand and foot with yarn, and stayed that way until 19 July. The ill disciplined men proceeded to destroy part of the rigging and sails by chasing vessels. On the 19th, thirty miles off Bordeaux, Priscilla was recaptured by British Privateer Ship Union (Stop), out of London. She was taken into Fowey. Cassady was in very bad health, unable to stand when he was liberated.

[NDAR, IX, 483-484 and 484 note, 490-492, 593; XI, 888-891 and 891n12]

Revised 20 January 2009