Name of Vessel:

Sally

Master of Vessel:

Eliakim Jones

Rig of Vessel:

Sloop

Date of Capture:

4 June 1779

Place of Capture:

Captor:

Connecticut Privateer Schooner Arnold and Connecticut Privateer Schooner Independence

Home Port:

From What Port:

To What Port:

Cargo:

Lumber, wool, coffee

Tonnage:

50

Battery:

Crew:

Owners:

Prize master:

Prize crew:

Ordered Into:

[Connecticut]

Into What Port:

[Connecticut]

Date Arrived:

Date Tried:

Date Sold:

Action:

No

Recaptured:

No

Comments: Connecticut Privateer Schooner Arnold (Commander Moses Butler) was at sea in June 1779, sailing with Connecticut Privateer Schooner Independence (Commander Gurdon Burnham). On 4 June 1779 the pair captured the 50-ton sloop Sally (Eliakim Jones), with a cargo of lumber, wool, and coffee. She was sent into Hartford, Connecticut, libeled and condemned.

[Middlebrook, Maritime Connecticut During the Revolution, II, 53]