Name of Vessel:

Sally

Master of Vessel:

Moses Lewis

Rig of Vessel:

Schooner

Date of Capture:

14 June 1777

Place of Capture:

70 miles southeast of Nantucket Shoals, Massachusetts

Captor:

HM Frigate Unicorn

Home Port:

From What Port:

Virginia

To What Port:

Boston, Massachusetts

Cargo:

Flour

Tonnage:

Battery:

Crew:

Owners:

E. Holbrook

Prize master:

Petty officer

Prize crew:

7 [total]

Ordered Into:

Rhode Island

Into What Port:

Rhode Island

Date Arrived:

Date Tried:

Date Sold:

Action:

No

Recaptured:

No

Comments: On 14 June 1777 HM Frigate Unicorn (Captain John Ford) was patrolling about sixty miles southeast of Nantucket Shoals, off Massachusetts. The weather was windy and cloudy. At 1000 a sail was seen to the southeast and Ford chased. About 1330 Unicorn came up with the chase and captured her. She was the schooner Sally (Moses Lewis; owned by E. Holbrook). Sally was bound from Virginia to Boston, Massachusetts with a cargo of flour. A petty officer and six men went aboard as the prize crew. She was sent into Rhode Island. Sally was one of the fleet of small craft operated by the Continental Army’s commissary department to bring flour from Maryland and Virginia.

[NDAR, IX, 109 and note, 153, 210; “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]