Name of Vessel:

America

Master of Vessel:

Commander Asa Palmer

Rig of Vessel:

Sloop

Date of Capture:

18 July 1777

Place of Capture:

Long Island Sound, New York

Captor:

[unknown]

Home Port:

From What Port:

New Haven, Connecticut

To What Port:

Cargo:

Tonnage:

45

Battery:

Crew:

Owners:

Prize master:

Prize crew:

Ordered Into:

Newport, Rhode Island

Into What Port:

Newport, Rhode Island

Date Arrived:

Date Tried:

Date Sold:

Action:

No

Recaptured:

No

Comments: Connecticut Privateer Sloop America (Commander Asa [Amos] Palmer) was patrolling in Long Island Sound in early July 1777. She was captured on 18 July by the British. Palmer and his crew  were taken to Newport, Rhode Island as prisoners. Palmer was later exchanged. His First Lieutenant, Edward Williams, died while a prisoner on the British prison ship at Newport in August 1777.

[Middlebrook, Maritime Connecticut During the Revolution, II, 50]