Name of Vessel:

[unknown]

Master of Vessel:

Rig of Vessel:

Sloop

Date of Capture:

[24] May 1780

Place of Capture:

Delaware Bay

Captor:

British “refugees”

Home Port:

From What Port:

To What Port:

Cargo:

Corn

Tonnage:

Battery:

Crew:

Owners:

Prize master:

Prize crew:

Ordered Into:

Into What Port:

Date Arrived:

Date Tried:

Date Sold:

Action:

No

Recaptured:

Yes

Comments: Pennsylvania Privateer Ship Aurora (Commander Woolman Sutton) sailed from Philadelphia about 24 May 1780. The next day she was beating down Delaware Bay, making for the entrance, when she encountered a small sloop with a cargo of corn, which had been captured by Loyalist “refugees.” The sloop was recaptured. Early in the morning on 26 May the pilot was put on the sloop, along with the handcuffed prisoners, and it was sent off to Cape May, New Jersey.

[Freneau, Some Account of the Capture of the Ship “Aurora,” 15]