Name of Vessel:

Falmouth Packet

Master of Vessel:

Thomas Flinn

Rig of Vessel:

Schooner

Date of Capture:

12 June 1775

Place of Capture:

Machias, Massachusetts [Maine]

Captor:

Machias militia

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Ordered Into:

Machias, Massachusetts [Maine]

Into What Port:

Machias, Massachusetts [Maine]

Date Arrived:

22 June 1775

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Date Sold:

Action:

No

Recaptured:

No

Comments: Falmouth Packet (Thomas Flinn) was seized by twenty men under Benjamin Foster on 12 June 1775, in the Machias River, and used during the pursuit and capture of HM Schooner Tender Margaretta. She was returned to her master on 13 June.

[NDAR, I, 676-677 and 677 note, 747 and note, 848-849, 913-914. This vessel is listed as an “anonymous” privateer in Allen, Massachusetts Privateers of the Revolution, 330]

Posted 3 June 2008