The Royal American Gazette (New York), Tuesday, May 19, 1778

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New-York, May 19

Prizes sent in since our last, are,

The Friendship, Crarey, from New-London, for South-Carolina,¹ taken by the latter of marque ship Rose, Captain Duncan.²

The sloop Exchange,³ with rum and sugar, taken by the ships True Brothers, Capt. Marshall;⁴ ship Elizabeth, Capt. Hunter;⁵ and the Antigua Planter, from the bay of Honduras for London:⁶ The Exchange had been taken before by the General Arnold privateer.⁷

The French ship Citizen,⁸ from Boston for Virginia, with salt, &c. taken last Tuesday, in lat. 58. long. 72, by the tender belonging to his Majesty’s ship Experiment, Sir James Wallace, commander.⁹

1. Ship Friendship, Humphrey Crary, master, a Massachusetts vessel captured on a voyage from Connecticut to South Carolina. UkLPR, H.C.A. 32/336/16.

2. Privateer ship Rose, Capt. James Duncan, 305 tons and three decks, built in 1752 and rebuilt in 1777, carried 22 six-pounder guns, 2 four-pounders, 2 three-pounders, and a crew of 40, from London, owned by the captain. Lloyd’s Register of Ships, 1777–1778; UkLPR, H.C.A. 26/60/177.

3. Sloop Exchange, John Wardell, master. UkLPR, H.C.A. 32/326/9.

4. In Lloyd’s Register of Ships, 1777–1778, this vessel is called True Briton. It is listed as a British privateer ship, Capt. George Marshall, burthen 400 tons, built in 1756 in France and extensively rebuilt in 1778, mounting 20 six-pounder guns. According to its letter of marque application, it carried sixteen guns, ten swivels and a crew of forty; it was owned by a group of London merchants led by James Mather. UkLPR, H.C.A. 26/60/170.

5. British privateer ship Elizabeth, Capt. Robert Hunter, 200 tons, mounted 18 six-pounder guns, and a crew of thirty. It was built in New York in 1770, but operated out of Glasgow and was owned by Glasgow merchants John and George Buchanan. Lloyd’s Register of Ships, 1777–1778; UkLPR, H.C.A. 26/60, p. 179.

6. Ship Antigua Planter, J. Johnson, master, 250 tons burthen, carried 10 four-pounders, built in the Thames River in 1753, repaired in 1771 and 1777, owned by Porter & Co. Ibid.

7. There are several vessels named General Arnold that served as privateers about this time. The likely captor of Exchange was the schooner General Arnold, Capt. John Willson. It carried four cannon and four swivels and a crew of 25. It was from Boston and was owned by William Shattuck and Alexander Rose. Allen, Massachusetts Privateers of the Revolution, p. 142.

8. Ship Citoyen (Citizen), Pierre Badet, master, was captured on 13 May. Howe’s Prize List, 30 Oct. 1778, UkLPR, Adm. 1/488, fols. 485–86.

9. The tender of H.M.S. Experiment was schooner Hawk/Hawke, formerly the American merchant schooner Willing Maid.

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1778 May 19

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Volume 12

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American Theatre from April 1, 1778 to May 31, 1778

Naval Documents of the American Revolution

The Royal American Gazette (New York), Tuesday, May 19, 1778

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