Diary of Simeon Perkins, June 27, 1778

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Saturday, June 27th, [Liverpool, Nova Scotia]—Mr Matthews, Porterfield, and Hayden, from Ragged Islands,¹ report that a Privateer had taken said Matthew and Hayden's boat. The said Privateer had the crews of three of four more on board, to the Number of eighty that had been run on shore at Ship Harbour, viz:- Doliver, Woodman, and two others.² Three of the Captains, and 51 [?] of the Common men were left behind, either killed or missing. They also report that two Boston Privateers had Robed Colon. Alexander McNut of all his Cloaths, Plate, Library, etc.³

Perkins, Diary, p. 206.

1. John Matthews, William Porterfield, and Thomas Hayden later petitioned the Massachusetts State Council for losses suffered because of privateer raids. Edmund Duval Poole, Annals of Yarmouth and Barrington (Nova Scotia) in the Revolutionary War [The Yarmouth Herald, 1899], p. 47.

2. Thomas Doliver was captain of the Massachusetts privateer schooner Snow Bird; Jonathan Woodman was captain of the Massachusetts Privateer schooner Hammond.

3. In a later memorial to the Massachusetts Council of State, Alexander McNutt asserted that he had been robbed by Capt. Thomas Francis and the crew of the Massachusetts Privateer schooner Congress, He asserted that the privateersmen had unlawfully stolen "Sword, Pistol, Firelocks, Powder, Ball, Shot, and Flints, Drawing Box and writing Stand with there contents, Superfine Scarlet and Blew Cloaths, Books, Silver, Spoons, Silver Buckles, Plain, Set and Carved, Gold lace, Diamond Rings, and a number of other articles." In 1780, the Council allowed McNutt to import a variety of foodstuffs because of the losses he and fourteen other families of Port Roseway had suffered. Ibid., 45 46, 49.

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1778 June 27

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Volume 13

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American Theater, June 1 to August 15, 1778

Naval Documents of the American Revolution

Diary of Simeon Perkins, June 27, 1778

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