Name of Vessel:

Elizabeth

Master of Vessel:

John Brown

Rig of Vessel:

Ship

Date of Capture:

[May] 1780

Place of Capture:

Captor:

New Hampshire Privateer Ship Aurora

Home Port:

From What Port:

To What Port:

Cargo:

Tonnage:

Battery:

Crew:

Owners:

Prize master:

Prize crew:

Ordered Into:

[Newburyport], Massachusetts

Into What Port:

[Newburyport], Massachusetts

Date Arrived:

Date Tried:

25 July 1780

Date Sold:

Action:

No

Recaptured:

No

Comments: New Hampshire Privateer Ship Aurora (Commander Thomas Collier [Collyer]) was at sea about May 1780. She captured the 350-ton ship Elizabeth (John Brown) about May and brought her, apparently, into Newburyport, Massachusetts. The Elizabeth was libeled in the Massachusetts Maritime Court of the Middle District on 22 June 1780, with trial set for 25 July 1780.

[The Universal Chronicle and the General Advertiser [Boston], Thursday, June 22, 1780]