The Connecticut Gazette, and the Universal Intelligencer, Friday, March 20, 1778

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NEW-LONDON, March 20.

Capt. Williams who arrived here last Week from the West Indies, has given us a further Account of Vessels belonging to Nau-England, which are arrived in the West Indies, viz.

Brig Swift, Young; schooner Polly, Ailger; sloop Betsey, Kilby; schooner Chance, Smith; schooner Neptune, Meserve; Brig Charming Sally, Hammond; Brig London, Backliff; schooner Prudence, Boardman; schooner Jane, White; schooner ——, Nichols; schooner Nancey, Cooper; schooner Endeavour, Elwell; sloop Chance, Cooper; sloop ——, Doxey; schooner ——, Pembleton.

Privateers in the West-Indies,belonging to the Northward.

Sloop Revenge, Freeborn;¹ Brig Hamden, Bartlet;² sloop Revenge, Sampson; Brig General-Sullivan, Darlin;³ship Cumberland, Collins;⁴ schooner Lincoln, Margeson;⁵ sloop Ramble,⁶ ———; sloop Fly,⁷ Stanton.

The Privateer Brig Fairfield, Capt. Hovey,⁸ is arrived at Bedford [in Dartmouth], from a Cruize.

About 30 Sail of the Enemy's Shipping are lying in Gardiner's Bay, having some Men of War with them.

1. Massachusetts privateer sloop Revenge, Isaac Freeborn, commander, mounting 10 carriage guns, a crew of 60 seamen, was commissioned on 30 Apr. 1777 and owned byJohn Dean and Mungo Mackay, of Boston. M-Ar, Revolutionary Rolls Collection, vol. 7, p. 50.

2. Massachusetts privateer brigantine Hampden, John Bartlett, commander, mounting 14 carriage guns, a crew of 60 seamen, was commissioned on 29 Nov. 1777 and owned by Jonathan Ingersoll, of Salem and George Cabot, of Beverly. M-Ar, Revolutionary Rolls Collection, vol. 6, pp. 100, 103.

3. New Hampshire privateer brigantine General Sullivan, Thomas Dalling, commander, mounting14 carriage guns, a crew of 100 seamen, was commissioned on 13 Sep. 1777 and owned by Eliphalet Ladd and others, of Exeter, N.H. DNA, PCC, item 196, vol. 6, p. 43 (M247, roll 203).

4. Massachusetts privateer ship Cumberland, James Collins, commander, mounting 20 carriage guns, a crew of 180 men, was commissioned on 12 and 13 Sept. 1777 and owned by Paul Dudley Sargent, Nathaniel Crafts and Job Prince, of Boston. M-Ar, Revolutionary Rolls Collection, vol. 5, pp. 112, 115.

5. Massachusetts privateer schooner General Lincoln, John Margeson, commander, mounting 10 carriage guns, a crew of 50 seamen, was commissioned on 22 Dec. 1777 and owned by Philip Moore, of Boston. M-Ar, Revolutionary Rolls Collection, vol. 5, pp. 323, 326.

6. American privateer sloop Rambler, Nathaniel Monro, commander. See NDAR 10: 481, 481n, 810.

7. American privateer sloop Fly was fitted out at Martinique in the spring of 1777 and originally was commanded by Thomas Palmer. See NDAR 9: 93, 108, 180, 195, 223-24.

8. Rhode Island privateer sloop Fairfield, James Hovey, commander, was commissioned on 28 Oct.1777 and owned by Amos Hubbard and others. William Paine Sheffield, Rhode Island Privateers (Newport, R.I.: John P. Sanborn, Printer, 1883), p. 60.

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1778 March 20

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Volume 11

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Connecticut Gazette and the Universal Intelligencer

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American Theatre from January 1, 1778 to March 31, 1778

Naval Documents of the American Revolution

The Connecticut Gazette, and the Universal Intelligencer, Friday, March 20, 1778

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