Name of Vessel:

Katy

Master of Vessel:

John Brown

Rig of Vessel:

Sloop [Schooner]

Date of Capture:

June 1780

Place of Capture:

Captor:

Connecticut Privateer Schooner Experiment and Massachusetts Privateer Sloop American Revenue

Home Port:

From What Port:

To What Port:

Cargo:

Salt

Tonnage:

Battery:

Crew:

Owners:

Prize master:

Prize crew:

Ordered Into:

New London, Connecticut

Into What Port:

New London, Connecticut

Date Arrived:

24 June 1780

Date Tried:

Date Sold:

Action:

No

Recaptured:

No

Comments: In June 1780 Massachusetts Privateer Sloop American Revenue (Commander William Jigger) was sailing in company with the Connecticut Privateer Schooner Experiment (Commander Giles Hall) when the British sloop Katy (John Brown) was captured. This vessel, described as a schooner, arrived at New London on 24 June. Her cargo was said to be 500 bushels of salt.

[Middlebrook, Maritime Connecticut During The Revolution, II, 53; The New-York Gazette; and The Weekly Mercury, Monday, July 31, 1780, datelined New London, June 30, 1780]