Name of Vessel:

Dove

Master of Vessel:

John Tetherty

Rig of Vessel:

Brig

Date of Capture:

[November] 1780

Place of Capture:

Captor:

Massachusetts Privateer Brigantine Adventure

Home Port:

From What Port:

 

To What Port:

 

Cargo:

 

Tonnage:

150

Battery:

Crew:

Owners:

Prize master:

Prize crew:

Ordered Into:

[Boston], Massachusetts

Into What Port:

[Boston], Massachusetts

Date Arrived:

 

Date Tried:

2 January 1781

Date Sold:

Action:

No

Recaptured:

No

Comments: Massachusetts Privateer Brigantine Adventure (Commander James Morris) was at sea about November 1780. About mid-November 1780 it was reported from Boston that she had taken a number of valuable prizes, some of which had not yet arrived. On 7 December 1780 Morris libeled the 150-ton brig Dove (John Tetherty) in the Massachusetts Maritime Court of the Middle District. Dove’s trial was to be held on 2 January 1781.

[The Providence Gazette and Country Journal, Wednesday, November 22, 1780, datelined Boston, November 16; The Independent Chronicle and the Universal Advertiser [Boston], Thursday, December 7, 1780]

Posted 2 June 2008