Name of Vessel:

[unknown]

Master of Vessel:

Rig of Vessel:

Sloop

Date of Capture:

24 November 1778

Place of Capture:

Captor:

Connecticut Privateer Sloop Abigail

Home Port:

From What Port:

To What Port:

Cargo:

Tonnage:

40

Battery:

Crew:

Owners:

Prize master:

Prize crew:

Ordered Into:

Into What Port:

Date Arrived:

Date Tried:

Date Sold:

Action:

No

Recaptured:

No

Comments: Connecticut Privateer Sloop Abigail (Commander Jacob Riley) captured, on 24 November 1778, a British 40-ton sloop. Libel and condemnation records exist for this capture.

[Middlebrook, Maritime Connecticut During the Revolution, II, 47-48]

Revised 21 September 2008