Name of Vessel:

Surprize

Master of Vessel:

Aaron Martin

Rig of Vessel:

Sloop

Date of Capture:

[5] July 1780

Place of Capture:

Captor:

Rhode Island Privateer Sloop Argo

Home Port:

From What Port:

New Providence [Nassau], Bahama Islands

To What Port:

New York, New York

Cargo:

Limes, pineapples, fruit

Tonnage:

Battery:

Crew:

Owners:

Prize master:

Prize crew:

Ordered Into:

Providence, Rhode Island

Into What Port:

Providence, Rhode Island

Date Arrived:

21 July 1780

Date Tried:

4 September 1780

Date Sold:

Action:

No

Recaptured:

No

Comments: Rhode Island Privateer Sloop Argo (Commander Silas Talbot) captured the small sloop Surprize (Aaron Martin) perhaps in early July 1780. She was bound from New Providence (Nassau), Bahama Islands [or Bermuda] to New York, New York with a cargo of limes, pineapples and other fruit. Surprize was sent in to Providence and arrived on 21 July. She was libeled on 19 August 1780 and tried 4 September 1780.

[The Providence Gazette; And Country Journal, Saturday, July 22, 1780; The American Journal And General Advertiser [Providence], Wednesday, July 26, 1780; The Newport Mercury, Saturday, August 19, 1780]