Name of Vessel:

Nonesuch

Master of Vessel:

William Hefferman

Rig of Vessel:

Sloop

Date of Capture:

27 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:

[Providence], Rhode Island

To What Port:

Cape Francois, French West Indies

Cargo:

Flour, lard, hoops, staves, lumber

Tonnage:

Battery:

Crew:

Owners:

Prizemaster:

Prizecrew:

Ordered Into:

Fire Island Inlet, New York

Into What Port:

Fire Island Inlet, New York

Date Arrived:

27 June 1776

Date Tried:

Date Sold:

Action:

No

Recaptured:

No

Comments: Sloop Nonesuch (William Hefferman) had cleared out for Hispaniola from Rhode Island on 18 June 1776. She was captured by HM Frigate Greyhound (Captain Archibald Dickson) on the morning of 23 June, forty-five miles west of Sandy Hook. She parted company with three other prizes on 24 June, when Greyhound was twenty-seven miles east of Sandy Hook, at 0600. On 27 June Nonesuch was recaptured by New York Navy Sloop Montgomery (Captain William Rogers) and Continental Army Sloop General Schuyler (Captain Charles Pond), and taken into Fire Island Inlet, New York. The prisoners were forwarded to headquarters, and the New York Marine Committee sent William Mercier down to see about the vessels and cargoes on 28 June. Mercier was to unlade the vessels, transport the cargoes to Huntington by wagon, along with the necessary papers for condemnation. The vessels were to be left at Fire Island Inlet, as it was unsafe to try to take them around the east end of Long Island to New York City. If Mercier and Rogers thought it was safe the Nonesuch could remain loaded. The sloop was left at Long Island when that place fell, [but part of her cargo was removed to Milford, Connecticut about 3 September 1776. The cargo was libeled on 6 November 1776 at New Haven, with trial set for the second Wednesday in December. According to the libel, Montgomery was the sole captor.]

[NDAR, V, 626, 713 and note, 770 and note, 789, 789-790, 790, 853-855; VII, 62-63 and 63 note; 9, 219-220 and 220 note]

Revised 10 August 2009