Name of Vessel:

Naomi

Master of Vessel:

Edmund Ballard

Rig of Vessel:

Ship

Date of Capture:

[September] 1780

Place of Capture:

Captor:

Massachusetts Privateer Brigantine Adventure

Home Port:

From What Port:

 

To What Port:

 

Cargo:

 

Tonnage:

 

Battery:

Crew:

Owners:

Prize master:

Prize crew:

Ordered Into:

[Boston], Massachusetts

Into What Port:

[Boston], Massachusetts

Date Arrived:

 

Date Tried:

21 November 1780

Date Sold:

Action:

No

Recaptured:

No

Comments: Massachusetts Privateer Brigantine Adventure (Commander James Morris) was at sea in September 1780. About mid-November 1780 it was reported from Boston that she had taken a number of valuable prizes, some of which had not yet arrived. The first prize libeled was the ship Naomi (Edmund Ballard), on 2 November 1780, in the Maritime Court of the Middle District. Trial was to be held on 21 November.

[The Providence Gazette and Country Journal, Wednesday, November 22, 1780, datelined Boston, November 16; The Independent Chronicle and the Universal Advertiser [Boston], Thursday, November 2, 1780]

Posted 2 June 2008