Name of Vessel:

Winyaw

Master of Vessel:

Samuel Harlow

Rig of Vessel:

[Schooner]

Date of Capture:

14 April 1777

Place of Capture:

Off the North Carolina coast

Captor:

HM Frigate Brune

Home Port:

From What Port:

Boston, Massachusetts

To What Port:

[Savannah, Georgia]

Cargo:

Ballast

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 American vessel Winyaw (Samuel Harlow) was bound from Boston, Massachusetts, in ballast. She was captured by HM Frigate Brune (Captain James Ferguson) on 14 April 1777, off the North Carolina coast. Winyaw was burned. Her crew were probably among the twenty-nine or forty-two prisoners released at Cape Fear, North Carolina on 2 May 1777. This may be the schooner, whose master was released at that time, which was said to be bound from Savannah, Georgia to New England.

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