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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]


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