Name of Vessel:

Polly

Master of Vessel:

Samuel Price

Rig of Vessel:

Schooner

Date of Capture:

[15] March 1779

Place of Capture:

Captor:

Connecticut Privateer Sloop American Revenue

Home Port:

From What Port:

To What Port:

Cargo:

[Tobacco]

Tonnage:

40

Battery:

Crew:

Owners:

Prize master:

Prize crew:

Ordered Into:

Into What Port:

New London, Connecticut

Date Arrived:

April 1779

Date Tried:

28 April 1779

Date Sold:

8 June 1779

Action:

No

Recaptured:

No

Comments: About March 1779 Connecticut Privateer Sloop American Revenue (Commander William Leeds) captured the 40-ton schooner Polly (Samuel Price). She was brought into New London. Polly was tried on 28 April 1779. Polly may have had a cargo of tobacco. She was advertised for sale at New London on 27 May 1779, with the sale to be held on 8 June 1779.

[Middlebrook, Maritime Connecticut During The Revolution, II, 51-53; Maclay, History of American Privateers, 133; The Connecticut Gazette and the Universal Intelligencer [New London], Thursday, May 27, 1779]