Name of Vessel:

Polly

Master of Vessel:

Nathaniel Atkins

Rig of Vessel:

Brig

Date of Capture:

12 April 1777

Place of Capture:

Off Nantucket Shoals, Massachusetts

Captor:

HM Sloop Albany

Home Port:

From What Port:

Boston, Massachusetts

To What Port:

Carolina

Cargo:

Lumber

Tonnage:

Battery:

Crew:

Owners:

William Shalluck

Prize master:

Prize crew:

Ordered Into:

Halifax, Nova Scotia

Into What Port:

Halifax, Nova Scotia

Date Arrived:

Date Tried:

Date Sold:

Action:

No

Recaptured:

No

Comments: Brig Polly (Nathaniel Atkins; owned by William Shalluck) was bound from Boston, Massachusetts to Carolina with a cargo of lumber on 12 April 1777. She was captured by HM Sloop Albany off Nantucket Shoals, Massachusetts and sent into Halifax, Nova Scotia.

[“The following is a List of Vessels seized as Prizes, and of Recaptures made, by the American Squadron, between the 27^th of May and 24^th of October, 1777, according to the Returns received by Vice Admiral Lord Viscount Howe,” in The London Chronicle, Tuesday, December 2, to Saturday, December 6, 1777]