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American Prizes November 1776 |
Name of Vessel:
Desire
Master of Vessel:
Joseph Jackson
Rig of Vessel:
Brigantine
Date of Capture:
[November] 1776
Place of Capture:
Captor:
Massachusetts Privateer Sloop Independence
Home Port:
From What Port:
To What Port:
Cargo:
Tonnage:
90
Battery:
Crew:
Owners:
Prize master:
Prize crew:
Ordered Into:
Into What Port:
[Dartmouth, Massachusetts]
Date Arrived:
Date Tried:
14 January 1777
Date Sold:
Action:
No
Recaptured:
No
Comments: The 90-ton brigantine Desire (Joseph Jackson) was captured by the Massachusetts Privateer Sloop Independence (Commander James Magee) about November 1776. She was sent into some port in the south of Massachusetts, and libeled in the Maritime Court of the Southern District on 26 December 1776. She was tried on 14 January 1777. Jackson, with two of his crew, were on a list of prisoners dated 6 February 1777, to be sent on a cartel for exchange. A second list for the same purpose, dated 13 February, contains the same names.
[The New-England Chronicle and Universal Advertiser [Boston], Thursday, December 26, 1776; NDAR, VII, 313-314 and 314 note [however, this is not a correct identification], 599-600, 1119, 1189]
| Posted 10 August 2011 |
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