Name of Vessel:

Polly

Master of Vessel:

John Carleton

Rig of Vessel:

Schooner

Date of Capture:

[November] 1780

Place of Capture:

Captor:

Joseph McLellan

Home Port:

From What Port:

To What Port:

Cargo:

Tonnage:

30

Battery:

Crew:

Owners:

Prize master:

Prize crew:

Ordered Into:

Into What Port:

Date Arrived:

Date Tried:

21 December 1780

Date Sold:

Action:

No

Recaptured:

No

Comments: The 30-ton schooner Polly (John Carleton) was libeled in the Massachusetts Maritime Court of the Eastern District on 7 December 1780 by one Joseph McLellan. Her trial was set for 21 December 1780. McLellan can not be associated with a particular privateer.

[The Independent Chronicle and the Universal Advertiser [Boston], December 7, 1780]

Posted 20 March 2010