Name of Vessel:

Lydia

Master of Vessel:

Rig of Vessel:

Schooner

Date of Capture:

27 June 1777

Place of Capture:

Off Smith’s Island, Virginia

Captor:

HM Sloop Senegal

Home Port:

From What Port:

Boston, Massachusetts

To What Port:

Virginia

Cargo:

Rum

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: Schooner Lydia was bound from Boston, Massachusetts to Virginia with a small cargo of rum. She was captured off Smith’s Island, Virginia (the entrance to Chesapeake Bay) by HM Sloop Senegal (Commander Anthony J. P. Molloy) on 27 June 1777 and burned.

[“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]