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American Prizes November 1776 |
Name of Vessel:
Sally
Master of Vessel:
John Stone
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:
50
Battery:
Crew:
Owners:
Prize master:
Prize crew:
Ordered Into:
Bedford in Dartmouth, Massachusetts
Into What Port:
Plymouth, Massachusetts
Date Arrived:
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.
[Middlebrook, Maritime Connecticut During The Revolution, II, 63; Allen, Massachusetts Privateers of the Revolution, 186; NDAR, VII, 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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