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American Prizes October 1776 |
Name of Vessel:
Sally
Master of Vessel:
John Burrows
Rig of Vessel:
Ship
Date of Capture:
[October 1776]
Place of Capture:
Captor:
Massachusetts Privateer Schooner Dolphin
Home Port:
From What Port:
[Portugal]
To What Port:
Cargo:
Lemons, wine, currants, salt, onions
Tonnage:
200, 220
Battery:
Crew:
Owners:
Prize master:
Prize crew:
Ordered Into:
[Salem], Massachusetts
Into What Port:
[Salem], Massachusetts
Date Arrived:
8 November 1776
Date Tried:
17 December 1776
Date Sold:
7 January 1777
Action:
No
Recaptured:
No
Comments: Massachusetts Privateer Schooner Dolphin (Commander John Leech [Leach], about October 1776, captured the Sally (John Burrows), a 200 or 220-ton ship built in Philadelphia, with a cargo of lemons, wine, currants, salt and onions. Sally was bound from a port in Portugal. The prize arrived at Salem on 8 November 1776. She was libeled in the Maritime Court of the Middle District on 28 November 1776, and tried on 17 December 1776. Her sale was held on 7 January 1777. One of her crewmen was on a list of prisoners at Salem on 11 December 1776.
[NDAR, VII, 139-141 and 141 note, 560-561, 567-568; The Independent Chronice and the Universal Advertiser [Boston], Thursday, November 28, 1776]
| Posted 19 October 2011 |
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