Name of Vessel:

Sally

Master of Vessel:

George Elliott

Rig of Vessel:

Schooner

Date of Capture:

16 November 1776

Place of Capture:

Captor:

Massachusetts Privateer Sloop Independence and Connecticut Privateer Sloop Broome

Home Port:

From What Port:

Halifax, Nova Scotia

To What Port:

West Indies

Cargo:

Fish, provisions

Tonnage:

70

Battery:

Crew:

Owners:

Prize master:

Prize crew:

Ordered Into:

Bedford in Dartmouth, Massachusetts

Into What Port:

Bedford in Dartmouth, Massachusetts

Date Arrived:

[25] November 1776

Date Tried:

14 January 1777

Date Sold:

Action:

No

Recaptured:

No

Comments: Massachusetts Privateer Sloop Independence (Commander James Magee) was at sea, with the Connecticut Privateer Sloop Broome (Commander William Nott), in November 1776. They sailed from Bedford in Dartmouth, Massachusetts. On 16 November 1776 two British schooners, both named Sally, were captured, both with cargoes of fish and provisions, and bound from Halifax, Nova Scotia to the West Indies. The 70-ton Sally was under George Elliott (Ellot, Eliot) and the 50-ton Sally was under John Stone. These were sent into Bedford for libel. The 50-ton Sally got into Plymouth, Massachusetts. Both vessels were libeled by Magee on 26 December 1776, with trial set for 14 January 1777 in the Maritime Court of the Southern District. Elliott was still a prisoner waiting to be exchanged on 6 February 1777, and he appears again on a list of 13 February 1777.

[Middlebrook, Maritime Connecticut During The Revolution, II, 63; Allen, Massachusetts Privateers of the Revolution, 186; NDAR, VII, 313-314 and 314 note [however this seems to be an incorrect identification], 599-600, 1119, 1189; 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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