Name of Vessel:

Kester

Master of Vessel:

Afrm. Lombard

Rig of Vessel:

Schooner

Date of Capture:

15 June 1777

Place of Capture:

Off the New Jersey coast [off Virginia]

Captor:

HM Brig Hinchinbrook

Home Port:

Boston, Massachusetts

From What Port:

Boston, Massachusetts

To What Port:

Baltimore, Maryland

Cargo:

Tonnage:

40

Battery:

Crew:

5

Owners:

Isaac Smith of Boston, Massachusetts

Prize master:

Prize crew:

Ordered Into:

Into What Port:

Date Arrived:

Date Tried:

[burned]

Date Sold:

Action:

No

Recaptured:

No

Comments: The 40-ton schooner Kester (Afrm. Lombard; owned by Isaac Smith of Boston, Massachusetts) was bound from Boston to Baltimore, Maryland in ballast. She had a five man crew aboard. On 15 June 1777 she was captured and burned by HM Brig Hinchinbrook (Lieutenant Alexander Ellis). Her place of capture is given as off the New Jersey coast, or off Virginia.

[NDAR, IX, 158; “List of Vessels seized or destroyed by His Majesty’s Ships stationed in Chesapeake Bay, and on the Parts of the American Coast Southward thereof, according to the Accounts transmitted to the Viscount Howe, since the Date of the General Return of Captures made by the American Squadron of the 25^th of October 1777.,” in The London Gazette, Tuesday, June 2, to Saturday, June 6, 1778]