Name of Vessel:

Hazard

Master of Vessel:

Rig of Vessel:

Brig

Date of Capture:

11 March 1778

Place of Capture:

Southwest of the Mona Passage

Captor:

HM Frigate Æolus

Home Port:

From What Port:

Cayenne [Newburyport, Massachusetts

To What Port:

Port au Prince, Saint-Domingue

Cargo:

Fish, lumber

Tonnage:

Battery:

Crew:

Owners:

Prize master:

Prize crew:

Ordered Into:

Jamaica, British West Indies

Into What Port:

Jamaica, British West Indies

Date Arrived:

Date Tried:

Date Sold:

Action:

No

Recaptured:

No

Comments: Brig Hazard was sailing from Newburyport, Massachusetts with a cargo of fish and lumber. On 11 March 1778 she was southwest of the Mona Passage when she was sighted and chased by HM Frigate Æolus (Captain Christopher Atkins). At 1530 Æolus stopped the chase. Atkins reported she was French owned, bound from Cayenne to Port au Prince, Saint-Domingue with an American cargo aboard. She was detained on suspicion and sent into Jamaica, British West Indies.

[NDAR, XI, 610 and note]