Name of Vessel:

Harmony

Master of Vessel:

James Briggs

Rig of Vessel:

Schooner

Date of Capture:

6 April 1777

Place of Capture:

Captor:

HM Frigate Pearl

Home Port:

From What Port:

Surinam, Netherlands South America [Guyana]

To What Port:

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Cargo:

Rum, sugar

Tonnage:

Battery:

Crew:

Owners:

Prize master:

Prize crew:

Ordered Into:

New York, New York

Into What Port:

New York, New York

Date Arrived:

[19] April 1777

Date Tried:

1777

Date Sold:

Action:

No

Recaptured:

No

Comments: The schooner Harmony (James Briggs) was bound from Surinam, Netherlands South America [Guyana] to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania with a cargo of rum and sugar. She was captured by HM Frigate Pearl on 6 April 1777. Other sources indicate the capture was on 11 April. Harmony was sent into New York, New York and had arrived there by 21 April 1777. She was tried and condemned in the Vice-Admiralty court in 1777.

[NDAR, VIII, 393-394 [where the master’s name is mistakenly given as Simmons], 1053-1063; HCA 32/349/5/1-8]