Name of Vessel:

Assumption

Master of Vessel:

Andrew Laffont

Rig of Vessel:

Brig

Date of Capture:

4 September 1777

Place of Capture:

90 miles SE of Charleston Bar, South Carolina

Captor:

Continental Navy Ship Randolph

Home Port:

From What Port:

Martinique, French West Indies

To What Port:

Charleston, South Carolina

Cargo:

Salt

Tonnage:

Battery:

Crew:

Owners:

Prize master:

Prize crew:

Ordered Into:

Charleston, South Carolina

Into What Port:

Charleston, South Carolina

Date Arrived:

7 September 1777

Date Tried:

[Released]

Date Sold:

Action:

Yes

Recaptured:

No

Comments: Continental Navy Ship Randolph (Captain Nicholas Biddle) was at sea on 4 September 1777. Some ninety miles southeast of Charleston Bar Randolph encountered a British Privateer Ship True Briton (Thomas Venture), escorting a small British convoy bound for New York. Both escort and convoy were captured. Among the vessels captured was the brig Assumption (Andrew Laffont), a French vessel bound to Charleston, South Carolina from Martinique, French West Indies, with a cargo of salt. Assumption was, presumably, a prize of the True Briton’s as it was unlikely she was sailing with the British by choice. Although taken in to Charleston on 7 September she was released.

[NDAR, IX, 919-920, 920-921, 971; XI, 1173-1174 and 1174 note]

Revised 9/21/08