Name of Vessel:

Abingdon [Lord Abingdon]

Master of Vessel:

Commander James Handy [Hardy]

Rig of Vessel:

Sloop

Date of Capture:

[November] 1778

Place of Capture:

Captor:

Home Port:

Baltimore, Maryland

From What Port:

To What Port:

Cargo:

Tonnage:

50

Battery:

Crew:

Owners:

Prize master:

Prize crew:

Ordered Into:

New York, New York

Into What Port:

New York, New York

Date Arrived:

Date Tried:

1778

Date Sold:

Action:

No

Recaptured:

No

Comments: The 50-ton Maryland Privateer Sloop Abingdon was commissioned 14 September 1778 under Commander James Handy of Baltimore, Maryland. It is probable that this sloop was captured by the British. A vessel called the Lord Abingdon, under a captain named James Hardy, was tried and condemned in the British Vice Admiralty Court at New York in 1778. She is described as an American merchant vessel.

[Archives of Maryland: Journal and Correspondence of the Council of Maryland, April 1, 1778 through October 26, 1779, 21: 203; NRAR, 217; HCA 32/391/14/1-3]

19 November 2008