Name of Vessel:

Charlotte

Master of Vessel:

Samuel Cox

Rig of Vessel:

Sloop

Date of Capture:

28 June 1776

Place of Capture:

Off Fire Island Inlet, New York

Captor:

Continental Army Sloop General Schuyler, New York Navy Sloop Montgomery

Home Port:

From What Port:

Halifax, Nova Scotia

To What Port:

New York, New York (Sandy Hook)

Cargo:

Entrenching tools, mantelets, cheveaux-de-frise

Tonnage:

40

Battery:

Crew:

Owners:

Prizemaster:

Prizecrew:

Ordered Into:

Providence, Rhode Island

Into What Port:

Providence, Rhode Island

Date Arrived:

[3] September 1776

Date Tried:

1 October 1776

Date Sold:

[15] October 1776

Action:

No

Recaptured:

No

Comments: British Army Transport Sloop Charlotte (Samuel Cox), a 40-ton vessel, sailed from Halifax for Sandy Hook with a cargo of entrenching tools for the British Army at Sandy Hook, and the storekeeper for the British engineering department aboard. Charlotte was part of Shuldham and Howe's invasion convoy. She was captured by Continental Army Sloop General Schuyler (Captain Charles Pond), and New York Navy Sloop Montgomery (Captain William Rogers) off Fire Island Inlet on 28 June 1776. She was taken into the inlet, where the tools were unloaded and sent up to the Continental Army. The prisoners went up to White Plains. The sloop was kept in Fire Island Inlet until Long Island was evacuated by the Americans, when she was sent to Providence, Rhode Island to be libeled. Charlotte arrived at Providence about 5 September 1776, where Continental Agent Daniel Tillinghast and Clarke & Nightingale, acting for New York as agents, libeled her on 12 September 1776. She was tried on 1 October 1776. Charlotte sold for over £500 but, by the time all the judges, sheriffs, and agents deducted their commission, and the government took its two thirds, the crew of the General Schuyler divided only £56.0.3. Clarke & Nightingale received £201.08.01 for the Montgomery.

[NDAR, V, 853, 946-947 and 947 note, 947 and note; VI, 820-821; VII, 62-63 and 63 note, 642-647, 1169; IX, 219-220 and 220 note indicates she was captured 5 July 1776 in the notes; Faibisy, A Compilation of Nova Scotia Vessels . . ., in NDAR, X, 1201-1210]

Revised 10 August 2009