Name of Vessel:

Polly

Master of Vessel:

Alexander English

Rig of Vessel:

Date of Capture:

25 April 1777

Place of Capture:

Off the North Carolina coast

Captor:

HM Sloop Merlin

Home Port:

From What Port:

Newburyport, Massachusetts

To What Port:

Cargo:

Lumber

Tonnage:

Battery:

Crew:

Owners:

Prize master:

Prize crew:

Ordered Into:

Into What Port:

Date Arrived:

Date Tried:

[burned]

Date Sold:

Action:

No

Recaptured:

No

Comments: The Polly (Alexander English) was bound from Newburyport, Massachusetts with a cargo of lumber. On 25 April 1777 she was captured by HM Sloop Merlin (Commander William C. Burnaby), off the North Carolina coast. Polly was burned. Her crew were probably among the twenty-nine or forty-two prisoners released at Cape Fear, North Carolina on 2 May 1777.

[NDAR, VIII, 942, 956-957, 997-998, 1053-1063]