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American Prizes November 1776 |
Name of Vessel:
Halifax Packet
Master of Vessel:
Eliphalet Smith
Rig of Vessel:
Schooner
Date of Capture:
[November] 1776
Place of Capture:
Captor:
Connecticut Privateer Sloop Washington
Home Port:
From What Port:
Halifax, Nova Scotia
To What Port:
New York, New York
Cargo:
Fish and staves
Tonnage:
70
Battery:
Crew:
Owners:
Prize master:
Prize crew:
Ordered Into:
[Massachusetts]
Into What Port:
[Massachusetts]
Date Arrived:
Date Tried:
14 January 1777
Date Sold:
Action:
No
Recaptured:
No
Comments: Connecticut Privateer Sloop Washington (Commander Joseph Jauncey) was at sea in the fall of 1776. She captured the 70-ton schooner Halifax Packet (Eliphalet Smith), bound from Halifax, Nova Scotia to New York, New York with a cargo of fish and staves. Halifax Packet was libeled on 26 December 1776, in the Massachusetts Maritime Court for the Southern District, with trial set for 14 January 1777.
[NDAR, VII, 599-600; Faibisy, “A Compilation of Nova Scotia Vessels . . .,” in NDAR, X, 1201-1210; The Independent Chronicle and the Universal Advertiser [Boston], December 26, 1776]
| Posted 10 August 2011 |
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