Name of Vessel:

George

Master of Vessel:

George Williams

Rig of Vessel:

Brig

Date of Capture:

17 June 1777

Place of Capture:

Nine miles north of Cape Cod, Massachusetts

Captor:

HM Frigates Amazon, Orpheus and Juno

Home Port:

From What Port:

Barbados [Tobago], British West Indies

To What Port:

Cargo:

Rum, bricks, tile

Tonnage:

Battery:

Crew:

Owners:

Hog & Co.

Prize master:

Midshipman Richard Raggate (Orpheus )

Prize crew:

Ordered Into:

Halifax, Nova Scotia

Into What Port:

Halifax, Nova Scotia

Date Arrived:

Date Tried:

Date Sold:

Action:

No

Recaptured:

No

Comments: About the end of May 1777, Connecticut Privateer Sloop Trumbull (Commander Henry Billings) was in the West Indies, where she captured the brig George (George Williams), bound from Barbados (or Tobago), British West Indies with a cargo of rum, bricks and tiles. George was owned by Hog & Co. George was captured three miles from a harbor on the western end of Tobago, which she was attempting to get into. The crew was removed to the Trumbull, except one sailor. The captors then proceeded to break up the cabin furniture, removed some provisions and a barrel of rum, and dispatched the prize to Boston, Massachusetts under prize master Joseph Cohoon [Cahoon]. On 17 June 1777, the George was in Boston Bay, where she was sighted by three patrolling British frigates (HM Frigates Amazon (Captain Maximilian Jacobs), Orpheus, and Juno). The British began chasing to the east southeast at 0730 and each sent a boat after George at 1000. She was captured at 1530, some nine miles north of Cape Cod, Massachusetts. Midshipman Richard Raggate of the Orpheus was sent aboard the George as prize master and she was sent into Halifax, Nova Scotia.

[NDAR, IX, 129 and note; XI, 356 and note; Middlebrook, Maritime Connecticut During the Revolution, II, 235; “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]