Name of Vessel:

George

Master of Vessel:

Thomas Brockway

Rig of Vessel:

Ship

Date of Capture:

[November] 1776

Place of Capture:

[European waters]

Captor:

Massachusetts Privateer Sloop Union

Home Port:

From What Port:

Ireland [England]

To What Port:

Gibralter

Cargo:

Provisions

Tonnage:

100

Battery:

Crew:

Owners:

Prize master:

Prize crew:

Ordered Into:

Massachusetts

Into What Port:

Cape Ann, Massachusetts

Date Arrived:

26 December 1776

Date Tried:

28 January 1777

Date Sold:

Action:

No

Recaptured:

No

Comments: Massachusetts Privateer Sloop Union (Commander Isaac Somes) was at sea in November and December 1776, in European waters. She captured the 100-ton British Transport Ship George (Thomas Brockway), bound from Ireland or England to Gibralter with provisions, chiefly butter, for the British garrison there. George was sent off to Massachusetts, where she arrived at Cape Ann on 26 December 1776, along with the prize schooner Hawk. George was libeled on 9 January 1777 and tried on 28 January. Brockway signed a testimonial to the good treatment of the prisoners by the Americans on 28 March 1777, before it departed for Ireland.

[The Independent Chronicle and the Universal Advertiser [Boston], Thursday, January 9, 1776; NDAR, VII, 844-845 and 845 note, 906-907, 868 and note; VIII, 217-219; The Boston Gazette and Country Journal, Monday, January 6, 1777; January 13, 1777; The Continental Journal [Boston], Thursday, January 9, 1777]

Posted 10 August 2011

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