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American Prizes
October 1776





Name of Vessel:

Sally

Master of Vessel:

Jesse Noble

Rig of Vessel:

Schooner

Date of Capture:

3 October 1776

Place of Capture:

Captor:

Continental Army Schooner Lee

Home Port:

From What Port:

Halifax, Nova Scotia

To What Port:

New York, New York

Cargo:

Fish, lumber

Tonnage:

90

Battery:

Crew:

Owners:

Prize master:

Prize crew:

Ordered Into:

Boston, Massachusetts

Into What Port:

Boston, Massachusetts

Date Arrived:

5 October 1776

Date Tried:

19 November 1776

Date Sold:

29 November 1776

Action:

No

Recaptured:

No


Comments: Although cleared from Halifax, she was apparently from the New England people living on the west coast of Nova Scotia. She was libeled on 24 October 1776.


[NDAR, VI, 1145-1146 and 1146 note, 1195-1196 and 1196 note; VII, 809-810; Clark, George Washington’s Navy, 233, 234]


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