The Guide to the American Revolutionary War at Sea: Vol. 7 1782, 1783 and Overseas

By Norman Desmarais

The Guide to the American Revolutionary War at Sea and Overseas chronicles more than 10,500 actions -- far more than other naval histories. Vol. 7 documents 1430 naval actions which occurred in 1782, 263 actions which occurred in 1783 and 116 actions which occurred overseas. It ends in June 1783 after the signing of the peace treaty and

• Language: English
• Publisher: Revolutionary Imprints
• Release date: Nov 1, 2016
• ISBN: 9780692801253

Norman Desmarais

Norman Desmarais, professor emeritus at Providence College, lives in Lincoln, RI and is an active re-enactor. He is a member of Le Regiment Bourbonnais, the 2nd Rhode Island Regiment and the Brigade of the American Revolution. He is editor-in-chief of The Brigade Dispatch, the journal the Brigade of the American Revolution and the author of Battlegrounds of Freedom, the 6-volume The Guide to the American Revolutionary War, and The Guide to the American Revolutionary War at Sea and Overseas (in preparation) which covers more than 10,500 actions. He has also translated the Gazette Françoise, the French newspaper published in Newport, RI by the French fleet that brought the Count de Rochambeau and 5800 French troops to America in July 1780. It is the first known service newspaper published by an expeditionary force. Norman has also written a number of articles for the Journal of the American Revolution, the Online Journal of Rhode Island History, and The Brigade Dispatch

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The Guide to the American

Revolutionary War at Sea

Vol. 7

1782,  1783 and Overseas

Norman Desmarais

Revolutionary Imprints

Contents

Abbreviations  …………………………………………

Newspapers………………………………………

1782 ……………………………………………………..

Notes………………………………………………….

1783 ……………………………………………………..

Notes…………………………………………………….

Overseas……………………………………………..…

Bahamas……………………….………………..

West Indies

Jamaica……………………………………..

Dominica…………………………………….

St. Lucia……………………………………..

St. Vincent…………………………………..

Grenada……………………………………...

St. Kitts……………………………………….

Tobago………………………………………… St. Eustatius…………………………………

Nevis……………………………………………

Montserrat and Dominica…………………

Central America

Belize…………………………………………..

Honduras……………………………………..

Rattan (Roatán)………………………………

Nicaragua…………………………………….. South America

Brazil……………………………… ……………

Guyana…………………………………………

India and the East Indies………………………..

Mahé……………………………………………

Carnatic………………………………………..

Arcot……………………………………………

Parambakam………………………………….

Pollilur………………………………………….

Tellicherry (Thalassery)……………………. Mangalore…………………………………….. Trichinopoly………………………………….. Noour, Karrikal, Pourouse and Gondlour.. Bombay (Mumbai……………………………. Porto Novo……………………………………..

Padang, Pfaman, Pooli Serico, Ayer, Hadjah and Negapatam……………………… Trincomalee, Ceylon [Sri Lanka]………. Calicut………………………………………..

Sadras……………………………………..…

Providien…………………………………….

Negapatam…………………………………. Tellicherry………………………………….. Trincomalee………………………………...

Pfaman, Pooli, Serico and Ayer, Hadjah.

Cuddalore…………………………………...

Gibraltar……………………………………..

Notes……………………………………………………...

Abbreviations

AAS: American Antiquarian Society.

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Massachusetts Historical Society, 1927.

Almon:  The Remembrancer, or impartial repository of public events.  Almon, John, Pownall, Thomas.

London: J. Almon, 1775-1784.

APS: American Philosophical Society, Philadelphia.

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Barneville:  Barneville, Brisout de, Journal de Guerre de Brisout de Barneville,  Mai 1780-0ctobre 1781,

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BNA: British National Archives.

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Claghorn: Claghorn, Charles Eugene.  Naval officers of the American Revolution: a concise biographical dictionary. Metuchen, N.J.: Scarecrow Press, 1988.

Clark: Clark, William Bell.  George Washington's Navy: being an account of His Excellency's fleet in New

England waters. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1960.

Clinton: Clinton, Henry.  The American Rebellion: Sir Henry Clinton’s Narrative of His Campaigns, 1775– 1782, with an appendix of original documents. Edited by  William B. Willcox. New Haven: Yale University  Press, 1954.

Clowes: Clowes, William Laird.  The Royal Navy: a history from the earliest times to 1900. London:

Chatham, 1996. 7 vols.

Coker:  Coker, P. C.  Charleston's maritime heritage, 1670-1865: an  illustrated history. Charleston, S.C.:

CokerCraft Press, 1987.

Commager: Commager, Henry Steele.  The spirit of 'seventy-six; the story of the American Revolution as told by participants. edited by Henry Steele Commager and Richard B. Morris. New York, Harper & Row  [1967].

Davies: Davies, K.G. Documents of the American Revolution 1770-1783. (Colonial Office Series) Shannon:

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Faibisy: Faibisy, John D. "A Compilation of Nova Scotia Vessels Seized During the American Revolution a nd

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Force: Force, Peter.  American archives: consisting of a collection of authentick records, state papers, debates, and letters and other notices of publick affairs, the whole forming a documentary history of the origin and progress of the North American colonies; of the causes and accomplishment of the American revolution; and of the Constitution of government for the United States, to the final ratification thereof. In

six series. [Washington, 1837—1853.

Fowler: Fowler, William M., Jr.  Rebels Under Sail: The American Navy during the Revolution. New York:

Scribner, 1976.

Fremont-Barnes:  The Encyclopedia of the American Revolutionary War: a political, social, and military

history. Gregory Fremont-Barnes, Richard Alan Ryerson, editors. Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO, 2006.

Gardiner: Gardiner, Robert, ed.  Navies and the American Revolution, 1775–1783. London: Chatham, 1996.

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Social, and Military History. Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO, 2006.

Gibbes: Gibbes, Robert Wilson.  Documentary History of the American Revolution. New York: D. Appleton  & Co., 1855 (3 vols: 1764–1776, 1776–1782, 1781–1782). reprinted New York Times & Arno Press, 1971.

Griffiths: Griffiths, John William.  To Receive them Properly : Charlestown prepares for war, 1775-1776.

Thesis (M.A.) University of South Carolina, 1992.

Hattendorf: Hattendorf, John B. Newport, the French Navy, and American Independence. Newport: The

Redwood Press, 2005.

HCA: Great Britain. High Court of Admiralty.

Hermione: Log of the Hermione. Captain Louis René Madeleine Le Vassor de Latouche-Tréville. Archives  Nationales de la Marine, Paris. B4 158. Published as Journal de la frégate du Roi l'Hermione de 32 canons  (extraits) Commandée par M. de La Touche, Lieutenant de Vaisseau. La campagne, commencée le 23 janvier 1780, finie le 26 fevrier 1782. in Tott, François de; Latouche-Tréville, Louis René Madelei ne Le  Vassor; Bois, Jean-Pierre.  Deux voyages au temps de Louis XVI, 1777-1780 la mission du baron de Tott en  Égypte en 1777-1778 et le Journal de bord de l'Hermione en 1780. Rennes: Presses Universitaires de  Rennes, 2005

Howe’s prize list 1777: The following is a List of Vessels seized as Prizes, and of Recaptures made, by the  American Squadron, between the 27th of May and 24th of October, 1777, according to the Returns received by Vice Admiral Lord Viscount Howe, in  The  London Chronicle., Tuesday, December 2, to Saturday,  December 6, 1777.

Johnson: Joseph Johnson. Traditions and Reminiscences of the American Revolution in the South.

Charleston, 1851, reprinted, Spartanburg, SC: 1972.

Kaminkow: Kaminkow, Marion and Jack,  Mariners of the American Revolution. Baltimore: Magna Carta

Book Company, 1967.

Kell: Kell, Jean Bruyere.  North Carolina’s Coastal Carteret County During the American Revolution, 1765–

1785, A Bicentennial Project of the Carteret County Bicentennial Commission . Era Press, 1975.

Laurens Papers:  Laurens, Henry; Hamer, Philip M.; Rogers, George C. and others.  The papers of Henry

Laurens. Columbia: Published for the South Carolina Historical Society by the University of South Carolina

Press, 1968-2003.

Latouche: Monaque, Rémi.  Latouche-Tréville, 1745-1804: l'amiral qui défiait Nelson . Paris: SPM, 2000.

LC: Library of Congress.

List of Vessels seized, 1778: List of Vessels seized or destroyed by His Majesty’s Ships stationed in  Chesapeake Bay, and on the Parts of the American Coast  Southward thereof, according to the Accounts transmitted to the Viscount Howe, since the Date of the General Return of Captures made by the  American Squadron of the 25th of October 1777." in the  London Gazette., Tuesday, June 2, to Saturday,  June 6, 1778.

MacKenzie: MacKenzie, Frederick.  Diary of Frederick MacKenzie, Giving a Daily Narrative of his Military  Services as an Officer of the Regiment of Royal Welsh Fusiliers during the years 1775-1781 in  Massachusetts, Rhode Island, and New York. Cambridge,  Mass., 1930;(Eyewitness accounts of the  American Revolution). [New York]: New York Times, [1968, c1930].

Maclay: Maclay, Edgar Stanton.  History of American Privateers. New York: B. Franklin, [1968].

Mackesy: Mackesy, Piers.  The War for America, 1775–1783. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1993.

Marines: Smith, Charles R.  Marines in the Revolution. Washington, DC: Government Printing Office, 1975.

Mass. Arch: Massachusetts Archives, Boston.

Mays: Mays, Terry M.  Historical Dictionary of the American Revolution. Scarecrow Press: Lanham, MD,

1999.

McCrady: McCrady, Edward.  History of South Carolina in the Revolution, 1775-1780. New York: Paladin

Press, 1969 (reprint of 1901 ed.).

McManemin: McManemin, John A. Captains of the privateers during the  revolutionary war. Spring Lake,

NJ (91 Maple Dr., Spring Lake 07762): Ho-Ho-Kus Pub. Co., 1985.

MHS: Massachusetts Historical Society.

Middlebrook:  Middlebrook,  Maritime Connecticut During the Revolution.

MM : Mariners Museum, Newport News, Virginia.

Montresor: Scull, G. D.  The Montresor Journals. ed. and annotated by G.D. Scull: [New York, Printed for the Society, 1882]; July 1, 1777, to July 1, 1778.

Mooney: Mooney, James L.  Dictionary of American naval fighting ships. Washington: Navy Dept., Officeof the Chief of Naval Operations, Naval History Division: For sale by the Supt. of Docs., U.S., 1959-1981.

Morningstars:  Smith, Gordon Burns.  Morningstars of Liberty: the Revolutionary War in Georgia, 1775–

1783. Milledgeville, Ga. Boyd Publishing, 2006.

Moultrie: Moultrie, William.  Memoirs of the American Revolution so far as it related to the States of North and South Carolina and Georgia.  New York, 1802; (Eyewitness accounts of the American Revolution). [New  York]: New York Times, [1968].

NBBAS: O’Kelley, Patrick.  Nothing but Blood and Slaughter. Booklocker.com, 2004.

NDAR: United States. Naval History Division.  Naval documents of the American Revolution. William Bell  Clark, editor; with a foreword by President John F. Kennedy and an introd. by Ernest McNeill Eller.  Washington: Naval History Division, Dept. of the Navy: For sale by the Supt. of Docs., U.S. G.P.O., 1964-.

NJ Archives:  Documents Relating to the Revolutionary History, State of New Jersey. Edited by William S.  Stryker. Trenton: The John L. Murphy Publishing Co., 1901. Also referred to as Archives of the State of New  Jersey.

Neeser: Neeser, Robert Wilden. Letters and papers relating to the cruises of Gustavus Conyngham: a captain of the Continental Navy, 1777-1779. Port Washington, N.Y. Kennikat Press, [1970].

NRAR: Lincoln, Charles Henry (ed.).  Naval Records of the American Revolution, 1775-1788. Washington:

GPO, 1906.

N. S. Arch .: Nova Scotia Archives, Halifax.

Onderdonk: Onderdonk, Henry.  Documents and Letters Intended to Illustrate the Revolutionary Incidents of Queens County: with Connecting Narratives,  Explanatory Notes, and Additions. New York: Leavitt, Trow,

1846;  Hempstead, L.I., L. Van de Water, 1884.

Parker: Parker, John C.  Parker’s Guide to the Revolutionary War in South Carolina: battles, skirmishes and murders. Patrick, S.C.: Hem Branch Publishing, 2009.

Paullin : Paullin, Charles Oscar,  The Navy of the American Revolution, Cleveland: The Burrows Brothers

Company, 1906.

Peckham: Peckham, Howard Henry.  The Toll of Independence: engagements & battle casualties of the

American Revolution . edited by Howard H. Peckham. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1974.

Prince:  The Autobiography of Yankee Mariner: Christopher Prince and the American Revolution. Edited by

Michael J Crawford. Washington, D.C.: Brasey's, 2002.

R.  I.  Arch.: Rhode Island  Archives, Providence.

RIHS: Rhode Island Historical Society, Providence.

Ripley: Ripley, Warren.  Battleground: South Carolina in the Revolution. Charleston, SC: Evening Post, 1983.

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Charles Scribner’s Sons, 2007.

Simms: Simms, William Gilmore.  The Life of Francis Marion. New York:  H.G. Langley, 1844.

Smith: Smith, Samuel Stelle.  Fight for the Delaware, 1777. Monmouth Beach, NJ: Philip Freneau Press,

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TJP: Julian p. Boyd, ed.  The Papers of Thomas Jefferson . Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1952.

UVL:  University of Virginia Library, Charlottesville.

Ward: Ward, Christopher.  The War of the Revolution. New York: Macmillan, 1952.

Newspapers.

AG:  The American Gazette or the Constitutional Journal.

AJ:  The American Journal and General Advertiser.

BEP:  The Boston Evening-Post and the General Advertiser.

BG:  The Boston-Gazette, and Country Journal.

BN:  Boston News-Letter, Published as  The Massachusetts Gazette: And the Boston Weekly News-Letter.

BP: Boston Post.

CC:  The Connecticut Courant, and  Hartford Weekly Intelligencer.

CG:  Connecticut Gazette.

CG&UI:  The Connecticut Gazette; And The Universal Intelligencer.

CJ:  The Connecticut Journal, and the New-Haven Post-Boy.

CJWA:  Continental Journal, Published as  The Continental Journal, and  Weekly Advertiser.

CSCHS:  Collections of the South Carolina Historical Society.

EJ:  The Essex Journal and New-Hampshire Packet.

ExJ :  Exeter Journal, published as  The Exeter Journal, or, New Hampshire Gazette.

FJ :  Freeman's Journal, Published as  The  Freeman's Journal, or New-Hampshire Gazette.

GG :  Georgia Gazette.

GSSC:  Gazette of the State of South-Carolina.

IC:  The Independent Chronicle.

IC&UA:  The Independent Chronicle and the Universal Advertiser. Also  The  New-England Chronicle, published as  The Independent Chronicle and the Universal Advertiser.

IG :  The Independent Gazetteer.

IJ:  Independent Journal.

IL:  The Independent Ledger and the American Advertiser.

LCh:  London Chronicle.

LG:  The London Gazette.

MAG : The Massachusetts Gazette or the Springfield and Northampton Weekly Advertiser.

MAH :  The Magazine of American History.

MG :  Dunlap's Maryland Gazette.

MGGA:  The Massachusetts Gazette or the General Advertiser.

MJ:  Maryland Journal or the Maryland Journal and Baltimore Advertiser.

MS:  Thomas's Massachusetts Spy or, American Oracle of Liberty. Later, published as  Haswell's

Massachusetts Spy or American Oracle of Liberty.

NCG:  North-Carolina Gazette.

NEC:  The New England Chronicle: or the Essex Gazette.

NG:  The Newport Gazette.

NHG:  The New-Hampshire Gazette, and Historical Chronicle.

NJG :  The New-Jersey Gazette.

NJJ:  New Jersey Journal.

NM:  The Newport Mercury.

NME:  The Newport Mercury Extraordinary.

NP:  The Norwich Packet and the Connecticut, Massachusetts, New-Hampshire, and Rhode-Island Weekly

Advertiser.

NYG:  The New York Gazette, And The Weekly Mercury, (Gaine's  New  York  Gazette).

NYGNA: The New-York Gazetteer or Northern Intelligencer.

NYJ :  The New-York Journal; or, The General Advertiser.

PA:  Public Advertiser (London).

PAG:  The Pennsylvania Gazette.

PEP:  The Pennsylvania Evening Post.

PG:  The Providence Gazette; and Country Journal.

PJ:  Pennsylvania Journal.

PL:  The Pennsylvania Ledger: Or The Virginia, Maryland, Pennsylvania, & New-Jersey Weekly Advertiser.

Also  published as  The Pennsylvania Ledger: or the Philadelphia Market-Day Advertiser.

PM:  Story & Humphreys's Pennsylvania Mercury, and Universal Advertiser.

PP:  Dunlap's Pennsylvania Packet or, the General Advertiser.

Prensa:  Maryland Journal, published as  La Prensa.

RG:  The Royal Gazette.

RNYG:  Rivington's New-York Gazetteer; Or, The Connecticut, Hudson's River, New-Jersey, and Quebec

Weekly Advertiser.

RNYLG:  Rivington's New-York Loyal Gazette.

RAG:  The Royal American Gazette.

RGG:  The  Royal Georgia Gazette.

RPAG:  The Royal  Pennsylvania Gazette.

RRG :  Rivington's Royal Gazette.

SCAGG:  The South-Carolina and American General Gazette.

SCG :  South-Carolina Gazette and General Advertiser.

SCWA:  South-Carolina Weekly Advertiser.

SCWG:  The South-Carolina Weekly Gazette.

SG:  The Salem Gazette.

TCG:  The Constitutional Gazette.

VG:  The Virginia Gazette.

WG:  Worcester Gazette.

WI:  The Weekly Intelligencer.

1782

Late 1781 or 1782

Atlantic Ocean, Conf.: 0,  34.38933 -40.48384

The British capture the Massachusetts  privateer  brigantine  Alexander.

The British captured Commander Gideon Crawford’s 100 -ton Massachusetts privateer  brigantine  Alexander in late 1781 or in 1782. The  Alexander,  owned by William Foster and others of Boston,  Massachusetts  was listed as being armed with six guns and eight swivel guns and as having a crew of 13 or 14 men. The  High Court of Admiralty notes her as a former Newfoundland merchant vessel captured by the Americans.1

1782

Atlantic Ocean, Conf.: 0,  38.35080 -61.31392

The British capture John Burrows’s Betsey.

The British captured John Burrows’s Betsey in 1782 and sent her to New York where she was tried and condemned. She is described as an American merchant  vessel.2

1782

See Overseas. Bahamas.  Fort Nassau. The Spanish capture Fort Nassau.

January 1782

Atlantic Ocean, Conf.: 1, 42.69100 -55.86470

The Massachusetts privateer brigantine  Fortune captures the brigantine  Peggy.

Commander Richard Ober or  Obear, third commander of the  Massachusetts privateer brigantine  Fortune, captured Jacob Getchel’s 100-ton  Loyalist brigantine  Peggy about January 1782 and presumably ordered her to Boston.  The  Peggy was libeled in the Maritime Court of the Middle District on January  28 and her trial scheduled for February 12, 1782.3

January 1782

Atlantic Ocean, Conf.: 1, 39.44520 -69.57564

The HMS  Santa Margaretta captures a sloop.

Commander Elliott Salter's HMS  Santa Margaretta captured a sloop bound from  Rhode Island to the Chesapeake Bay with provisions for the allied army at  Yorktown and sent her to New York on Thursday, January 24, 1782.4

January 1782

West Indies, Conf.: 2, 13.30083 -60.37816

The Whig privateers  Mohawk,  Porus,  Pilgrim,  Scourge  and  Hendrickcapture a vessel bound from Newfoundland to Jamaica, a vessel from  Halifax, a letter of marque ship from Bristol, England, a packet from  Barbados, the packet  Prince William Henry and the ship  Daniel.

The Whig privateers  Mohawk,  Porus,  Pilgrim,  Scourge  and  Hendrick captured several prizes to the windward of Barbados, British West Indies and sent them to Martinique, French West Indies in January 1782. The prizes consistedparticularly  of

  a vessel of 16 guns bound from Newfoundland to Jamaica, British West

Indies with cod;

  another with a similar cargo from Halifax, Nova Scotia;

  a fine letter of marque ship of 18 9-pounders which left Bristol, England

late in November with a cargo of provisions and very valuable

merchandise;

  a packet from Barbados with three officers on board carrying dispatches

to Sir Samuel Hood of the British expedition against St. Christopher (St.

Kitts, British West Indies;

  the packet  Prince William Henry  and

  the ship  Daniel, laden with codfish for Barbados.5

January 1782

Off Cuba, Conf.: 2, 21.42948 -74.96800

The Crown forces take two money prizes.

Two money prizes bound from Havana, Cuba to Cape François,  Saint-Domingue,  French West Indies  [Cap Haitien,  Haiti]  were taken to New Providence [Nassau,  Bahamas]  between January 17 and February 7, 1781. One had $43,500, the other $23,000.6

January 1782

Virginia coast, Conf.: 1, 36.36551 -70.74925

The Continental frigate  Alliance  takes a large ship.

Captain John Barry's Continental frigate  Alliance  sailed from Boston, Massachusetts on December 25, 1781. She took a large ship bound from

Jamaica, British West Indies to New York with sugars in January 1782.7

January 1782

See Overseas. South America. Essequibo. The French recapture the colony of  Essequibo.  And  Overseas. South America. Demerara. The French recapture the colony of Demerara.

Ca. January 1782

Off Nova Scotia,  Conf.: 1 ,  42.10687 -64.12642

The  Massachusetts  privateer sloop  Lively captures the schooner  Adventure. Commander John Augusta Dunn’s Massachusetts  privateer sloop  Livelycaptured Abraham Knowlton’s 50-ton schooner  Adventure  in January 1782. She was outward bound from Nova Scotia with a cargo of provisions and presumably ordered to Boston

,  Massachusetts. The  Adventure was libeled on February 4 and tried in the Maritime Court of the Middle District on February 12,  1782.8

See also Before January 10, 1782. John Augustine Dunn's sloop captures the schooner  Adventure.

Ca. January 1782

Atlantic Ocean, Conf.: 1 ,  41.38556 -60.08345

The  Massachusetts  privateer  sloop  Lively captures the schooner  Fly. Commander John Augusta Dunn’s Massachusetts  privateer  sloop  Livelycaptured Thomas Kenney’s 15-ton schooner  Fly about January 1782 and ordered her to Salem,  Massachusetts. She was advertised for sale at Salem on

January 21 ,  with the sale to be held on January 23. The  Fly was described as a  30-ton fast sailing,  well known schooner,  formerly owned by Nutting and  Woodward and used as a  privateer.  She  was libeled in the Maritime Court of the  Middle District on January 28 and  her  trial scheduled for February 12,  1782.9

Ca. January 1782

Atlantic Ocean, Conf.: 1 ,  39.03677 -56.74361

The  Connecticut  privateer boats  Hawk,  Jay and  Viper capture the sloop  Ranger.

The Connecticut  privateer boats  Hawk,  Jay and  Viper,  all under Commander  Ebenezer Jones,  probably captured  Mr. Niel’s or M’Niel 30-ton sloop  Ranger about January 1782 and probably sent her to New Haven ,  Connecticut.  Capt  Samuel Lockwood libeled her in the Maritime Court for Fairfield County,  Connecticut on January 22,  and her trial was set for February 12,  1782.10

Ca. January 1782

Atlantic Ocean, Conf.: 1 ,  38.76317 -60.08345

Two unidentified  Loyalist  sloops are captured.

Valantine Rider captured two unidentified  Loyalist  sloops and probably sent them to New Haven,  Connecticut. One was a 60-ton sloop commanded by a  Mr. Davis. The other was a 45-ton sloop commanded by  Mr. Seamans. The sloops were libeled in the Maritime Court for Fairfield County,  Connecticut  on January  17,  and their trial set for February 12 ,  1782 . 11

Early January 1782

Atlantic Ocean,  Jamaica, Conf.: 1, 30.98760 -72.91548

The HMS  Linkhorn captures the Massachusetts sloop  Romeo.

The sloop  Romeo sailed from Boston, Massachusetts on Sunday, December 24,  1781. She was bound to Havana, Cuba with a cargo of salt fish, apples, potatoes and other produce. She was captured by the HMS  Linkhorn and sent  to Port  Royal, Jamaica, British West Indies where she arrived on Sunday, January 6,  1782. 12

Ca. early January 1782

Atlantic Ocean, Conf.: 1, 34.86514 -61.65257/ 35.11715  -60.24632

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The Connecticut privateer boats  Rattlesnake,  Saratoga and  Viper capture the sloops Betsey and Sally.

The Connecticut privateer boats  Rattlesnake,  Saratoga and  Viper,  all under  Commander Ebenezer Jones, captured Mr. Mulner’s 25 -ton sloop  Betsey and probably Michael Poor’s 30-ton sloop  Sally about early January 1782 and sent them to Connecticut.  They were libeled in the Maritime Court for Fairfield  County, Connecticut on January 9, and  their trial set for February 12, 1782. 13

Before January 1,  1782

West Indies, Conf.: 1,  20.58600 -64.51783

The HMS  Chatham  captured T. Periam's schooner  Sally and a brigantine. Captain Douglas's HMS  Chatham  captured T. Periam's schooner  Sally bound from Martinique,  French West Indies to Virginia with naval stores and a brigantine from Virginia loaded with tobacco which arrived at New York on  Tuesday,  January 1 ,  1782 . 14

Before January 1,  1782

Atlantic Ocean,  Conf.: 0,  31.76040 -41.84205

The HMS  Amphitrite  captures a brigantine.

Captain Biggs's HMS  Amphitrite  captured a  brigantine with about 500 barrels of flour before January 1 ,  1782. 15

January 1,  1782.

Virginia coast,  Conf.: 1 ,  36.90994 -73.30689 /  24.08108 -70.14283 38.02603  -71.98854

The Crown frigate  Québec and the  Grana capture the brig  Fanfiure and the ship St. Lawrence.

Captain Christopher Mason's 38-gun  Crown  frigate  Québec and Captain  Fortescue's 28-gun  Grana sailed from Cork,  Ireland on October 29,  1781  to convoy a fleet of 25 victuallers. They stopped briefly at Charleston,  South  Carolina where they left 10 vessels and then proceeded to New York. On January  1 ,  1782 ,  the convoy captured Captain Harr’s brig  Fanfiure bound from Cadiz,  Spain to Philadelphia,  Pennsylvania with wine,  silks and salt and the ship St.  Lawrence bound from Havana,  Cuba to Puerto Rico. The latter was one of seven ships destined to Havana to take troops on board who were to proceed to South  America to oppose the insurgents there. Both prizes were sent to Charleston.  The convoy and the rest of the fleet arrived at New York on Saturday,  January 5,  1782. 16

Before January 2, 1782

Delaware coast, Conf.: 1,  38.26325 -73.05432

The HMS  Orpheus  captures two ships.

A British ship chases a fleet of 16 vessels.

The HMS  Orpheus  captured two ships from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania laden with flour and brought them to Sandy Hook, New Jersey before January 2, 1782.

A British ship was left in chase of a fleet of 16 vessels bound from Philadelphia to the Spanish and French islands. 17

Before January 2,  1782

Atlantic Ocean, Conf.: 1 ,  33.92427 -69.42883

The HMS  Chatham takes John Christie's sloop  Sally.

Commander Andrew Snape Douglas's HMS  Chatham  took  Master John Christie's sloop  Sally  and sent her to New York on Wednesday,  January 2 ,  1782. She was bound from Philadelphia,  Pennsylvania to St. Croix,  Danish West Indies with flour,  tobacco and staves.18

Before January 2,  1782

Near Bermuda,  Conf.: 2,  33.74175 -65.64953

The privateer  Endymion  captures 12 vessels.

The  privateer  Endymion  captured 12 vessels in a short cruise near Bermuda before January 2,  1782.19

Before January 2,  1782

Near  Bermuda,  Conf.:  2,  33.46725 -68.52795

The HM Sloop-of-War  Hornet captures a Spanish sloop and a Spanish polacre.

The HM  Sloop-of-War  Hornet captured two Spanish vessels,  a sloop and a

polacre,  and sent them to Bermuda before January 2 ,  1782. Their cargo sold for

more than £12,000.20

Before January 2,  1782

Near  Bermuda,  Conf.: 2,  34.66851 -67.59411

The Crown private ship-of-war  Renown captures a Spanish vessel.

Captain McPherson's private  ship-of-war  Renown captured a Spanish vessel valued at £20,000 before January 2 ,  1782 .21

Before January 2,  1782

Atlantic Ocean, Conf.: 1 ,  28.58362 -74.68029

The Whigs capture a Loyalist ship.  The Loyalist privateer ship  Virginiaretakes the ship.

Captain Hazard's  privateer  ship  Virginia,  belonging to Messrs. Shedden and  Goodrich,  retook a large homeward-bound ship from Jamaica,  British West  Indies with 600 hogsheads of sugar worth £50,000 before January 2 ,  1782 .22

January 2,  1782

Atlantic Ocean, Conf.: 1 ,  30.267665 -70.637324

The HMS  Garland captures the brig Fair American.

Ccommander C. Chamberlayne's HMS  Garland captured Captain Eldridge's brig

Fair American on Wednesday,  January 2 ,  1782 and sent her to New York on

Saturday,  January 5,  1782. She was bound from Philadelphia,  Pennsylvania to the West Indies with 550 barrels of flour.23

January 3,  1782

Off Cape Hatteras,  Conf.: 2,  35.64380 -72.86934

The HMS  Amphion  captures the French sloop-of-war  Bonetta.

John Bazeley's HMS  Amphion  captured M. de Barras's (nephew to Admiral Count de Barras) copper-bottomed sloop-of-war  Bonetta and sent her to New York where she arrived on Thursday,  January 10,  1782. She was captured by the  French fleet in October  1781  at the surrender of Yorktown,  Virginia. She sailed from the  Virginia Capes on January 1 ,  1782 and had 11 0 French soldiers and sailors on board besides her crew. The French troops on board had been left in the hospitals at Yorktown when the Count de Grasse's fleet sailed for the West  Indies. She was bound from Martinique,  French West Indies to deliver those troops and was taken off Cape Hatteras,  North Carolina on January 3.24

January 4,  1782

Sandy Hook,  Conf.: 3,  40.46651 -74.00874

Three Whig boats attack two Loyalist boats.

Captain  Adam  Hyler,  with three boats from New Brunswick,  New Jersey, attacked two  Loyalist boats  from Sandy Hook,  New Jersey off the West Bank  Friday night,  January 4,  1782. The Loyalists were headed to New York and gave  Hyler a warm reception.25

Before January 5,  1782

New York coast,  Conf.:  1,  40.28028 -68.60346

The Crown privateer  Lord Cornwallis takes the letter of marque  Rover.

The  Crown  privateer  Lord Cornwallis  took the 14-gun copper-bottomed letter of marque  Rover and sent her to Halifax,  Nova Scotia where she arrived on Saturday evening, January 5,  1782. She was bound from Salem,  Massachusetts to  Havana,  Cuba with various kinds of merchandise.26

January 5, 1782

See Overseas. India and the East Indies.  Trincomalee Ceylon [Sri Lanka]. The

British capture the fort at Trincomalee.

Before January 7,  1782

English Channel,  Conf.: 3 ,  49.46748 -2.50769

A French frigate chases a vessel and founders.

A French frigate was chasing a vessel off the back part of Guernsey, Channel  Isles before January 7 ,  1782. In the strong wind,  she ran on a rock with such force that she broke apart in half  an hour in sight of the people on shore. Another  French ship, which was in company, took up part of the crew; the rest drowned.27

Before January 7,  1782

Bay of Biscay,  Conf.: 2,  43.58234 -8.68847

A French man-of-war captures a British ship.

A 50-gun  French man-of-war captured a British ship before January 7,  1782 and brought her to Betancos (Betanzos,  Spain) . She ran on a sandbank a few hours later in a strong wind and broke apart within 24 hours. The prize was taken into the harbor and most of the crew of the man-of-war  were saved.28

January 7,  1782

Bahama Channel ,  Conf.: 3,  22.5000 -78.0000

The South  Carolina captures  the  Nelly,  the ship  Christie,  the ship

Elderslie,  the brig  Marquis of Rockingham,  the brig  Chance.

When Commodore Alexander Gillon found that Charleston,  South Carolina was still under British control,  he convened his officers to decide  where to go next.  They decided to sail to Havana,  Cuba. Commodore Gillon  sailed the frigate  South  Carolina toward Abaco,  Bahamas. They spotted a small fleet of five ships heading up the Bahama Channel on Saturday,  January 7,  1782. They were headed from  Jamaica,  British West Indies to  Glasgow,  Scotland and included:

  the ship  Nelly  with 354 hogsheads and 15 tierces of sugar,  23 puncheons

of rum,  five bags of cotton,  eight tierces of pimento,  18 planks of mahogany

and 4 tons of logwood;

  the ship  Christie  with 316 hogsheads and 12 tierces of sugar,  three

puncheons of rum,  16 tons of logwood and 4 tons of fustic;

  the ship  Elderslie  with 248 hogsheads and 41 tierces of sugar,  52

puncheons and one tierce of rum,  10 bags of cotton,  95 planks and 31

tons of mahogany,  37 tons of logwood and 3 tons of fustic;

  the brig  Marquis of Rockingham with 30 hogsheads and 43 tierces of sugar,

12 puncheons and 9 tierces of rum,  seven bags of cotton,  2 tierces of

pimento,  400 feet of mahogany plank,  13 tons of logwood,  three pipes of

Madeira wine and 200 pounds of copper;

  the brig  Chance  with 49 hogsheads and one tierce of sugar,  16 puncheons

and one tierce of rum,  10 bags of cotton,  95 planks and 31 tons of

mahogany,  37 tons of logwood and 3 tons of fustic.

Commodore Gillon forced the closest four brigantines to heave to and be boarded. Three of the brigs were  privateers and were armed but they were no match for the heavily-armed frigate. The fifth ship,  the  Nelly,  avoided the  South  Carolina,  so Gillon sent Lieutenant John Mayrant and 24 marines disguised in  British uniforms in a jolly boat to demand permission to board. The captain of the  Nelly threatened to fire on the boarding party,  but she soon came within range of the  South Carolina and had to surrender. Commodore Gillon then sailed to Havana on January 12th with  his  five prizes in tow.29

Before January 8,  1782

Bay of Biscay,  Conf.: 0,  46.30719 -6.67676

The Crown frigate  Stag takes the French privateer  Terror of England.

The  Crown  frigate  Stag  took the very successful French  privateer  Terror of

England before January 8,  1782. 30

Before January 8,  1782

North Sea,  Conf.: 1,  56.18178,  4.38463

The Crown privateer  Union takes a large ship under Russian colors and  then goes in quest of the ship’s  consort.

The  privateer  Union  took a large ship under Russian colors bound from Norway to Amsterdam,  Netherlands with masts and naval supplies and sent her to  Dundee,  Scotland before January 8 ,  1782.  The  Union  then went in quest of the ship’s  consort.31

January 8,  1782

Martha's Vineyard,  Conf.: 2,  41.472447 -70.399653

The Whig brig  Marian  captures the ship  St. Lawrence.

Captain William Packwood's brig  Marian  captured the ship  St. Lawrence  on  Monday,  January 8 ,  1782. Mr. Samuel Cardwell was put on board as prize master along with 10 crewmen with orders to take her to New London,  Connecticut or the first safe port. They anchored about 8 miles off Old Town,  Martha's Vineyard on January 11. They fired two guns as a signal for a pilot.  Henry Fish came on board  in the boat with five men and Mr. Cardwell gave charge of the ship to Mr. Fish. While he was getting her under way,  a third boat with Captain Peter Pease and five men came on board. Soon after the ship got under way,  Captain Pease persuaded Captain Cardwell to give the charge of the ship to him,  which he did. They anchored off Gay Head,  Martha’s Vineyard about  4 PM and remained there for three days when Captain Cardwell insisted that  Captain Pease bring the ship to sail.

Captain Pease headed between Gay Head and No Man's Land where he anchored about 8 PM. Captain Pease and two or three of his men refused to go to sea and incited a mutiny which prevented the ship from getting under way. Captain Pease ordered the man at the helm to run her ashore,  which he did about 1 AM. The vessel immediately went to pieces.  Fifteen of the 28 crewmen perished,  including  Captain Cardwell,  and very little of the cargo was saved.32

January 8,  1782

Off the Virginia Capes,  Conf.: 2,  37.05888 -71.79217The  Virginia  privateer brigantine  Jolly Tar captures the British transport  Liberty.

Commander George Cross’s six-gun Virginia  privateer brigantine  Jolly Tar sailed out of Beaufort,  North Carolina on an out-bound voyage in early 1782. She captured the British transport  Liberty off the Virginia Capes on Tuesday,  January 8 ,  1782. She was bound from Cork,  Ireland to Charleston,  South

Carolina with a cargo of beef,  pork,  butter,  flour,  oatmeal,  candles and linen. The prize was taken to New Bern,  North Carolina,  where she arrived before February  18,  1782,  more likely by mid-January.33

[In most newspaper accounts the date of the capture is given as 8th ult. with a  March date,  making the capture in February 1782,  and the  Jolly Tar’s  commander is given as  Captain Philip  Turner. In the Richmond dateline of  January 1782 ,  the capture is noted,  marking it as occurring in January 1782.  However, Turner was not commissioned until January 29. In  CBAR,  280 (citing

the  Maryland Journal,  12 March 1782) the capture is dated November  1781 ,  and  the commander is given as Cross. Cross was probably the commander of the  Jolly Tar when the transport was captured.];  CBAR,  280,  citing the  Maryland  Journal,  12 March 1782.

The  Jolly Tar was captured off the coast of Havana,  Cuba by the  HM Frigate  Jason,  which was under the command of Captain Picket and sent to New York where she arrived on October 3, 1782 . The  Jolly Tar's crew was taken prisoner and sent to New York,  where they were confined to the notorious prison ship  Jersey. Hawkins was confined to the ship for four months,  and then let out on parole for three months,  at which point the war came to an end.

See October 3, 1782. The HMS  Jason  takes the Whig ship  Jolly Tar and a brig.

January 9, 1782

See Overseas. Bahamas.  Nevis . The  French capture Nevis.

Before January 10, 1782

Atlantic Ocean, Conf.: 1, 33.87923 -72.56018

The Loyalist privateer barge  Trimmer  captures the schooner  Scammel. Master Jesse Turner's  Loyalist privateer barge  Trimmer  captured the schooner  Scammel, carrying  eight 3-pounders and 16 men, and sent her to New York on  Thursday, January 10, 1782. She was bound from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania to the West Indies with 450 barrels of flour and 400 kegs of white bread.34

Before January 10, 1782

Atlantic Ocean,  Conf.:  0, 36.32368 -59.20081

The Crown brigantine  Fox captures the Whig ships  Felicity  and  William. Master Jonathan Neil's brigantine  Fox captured the 200-ton Philadelphia,  Pennsylvania ship  Felicity  and the 180-ton ship  William  which were sold at auction on  January 15, 1782 .35

Before January 10, 1782

Atlantic Ocean, Conf.: 0, 34.89464 -41.18323

John Augustine Dunn's sloop captures the schooner  Adventure.

Master John Augustine Dunn's sloop captured the 70 -ton schooner  Adventurebefore January 10, 1782. Her cargo consisted of 20,000 boards, 20,000 shingles

and 5000 bricks. The ship and her cargo were sold at auction on Wednesday,  January 16, 1782.36

See also Ca. January 1782. The Massachusetts privateer sloop  Lively captures  the schooner  Adventure.

Before January 10, 1782

Atlantic Ocean, Conf.: 2, 29.84986 -75.72424

The Crown privateer  Regulator takes a prize schooner.

The New Providence [Nassau, Bahamas] privateer  Regulator arrived at New  Providence with a prize schooner on January 10, 1782. She was bound from  Philadelphia, Pennsylvania to Havana, Cuba with 650 barrels of flour.37

January  10,  1782

New Brunswick, New Jersey,  Conf.: 2,  40.48846 -74.43335

Crown troops capture all Mr. Hyler's boats.

A party of detachments from the light infantry,  the 40th and 42nd Regiments, commanded by Captain Beckwith,  embarked in six boats Wednesday evening,  January 9,  1782. They arrived at Brunswick,  New Jersey at 5 AM the next morning,  landed and brought away all Mr. Hyler's boats. Colonel Taylor,  who commanded a detachment of militia at Brunswick,  ran off when he received erroneous information that the  Crown troops were approaching.38

January  10,  1782

Chesapeake Bay,  Conf.: 1 ,  37.61394 -76.14172

The  Amphion takes a Whig schooner.

The  Amphion  took a Whig schooner loaded with tobacco  on January 10 ,  1782.  She sailed from the Chesapeake under convoy of the  Bonetta and was sent to  Bermuda.39

See also Before November 30, 1781.  The HMS  Amphion  captures the Connecticut schooner  Young Cromwell. And  November 28, 1781. The HMS  Amphion  captures a French brig. The HMS  Centurion  captures a Whig schooner.

Before January 11,  1782

Virginia coast,  Conf.: 1 ,  36.67694 -72.29651

The Whigs capture the English brigantine  True Briton.

The 160-ton English brigantine  True Briton  was captured on her way from  Jamaica,  British West Indies to New York with 220 hogsheads of Jamaica sugars.  She and her cargo were sold at auction in Providence,  Rhode Island on January  11 ,  1782.40

Before January 12,  1782

Atlantic Ocean, Conf.: 1 ,  32.77773 -72.20862

The Crown privateer sloop  Prince William  Henry captures Captain Finlay's

Whig sloop  Polly.

The  Crown  privateer  sloop  Prince William Henry captured Captain Finlay's Whig

sloop  Polly  before January 12,  1782. She was bound from Cape François,  SaintDomingue,  French West Indies  [Cap Haitien,  Haiti]  to Philadelphia,  Pennsylvania with rum,  dry goods,  cotton,  cocoa and coffee.41

January 13,  1782

Long Island Sound,  Conf.: 3,  41.26005 -72.04658

A Connecticut row galley captures a Loyalist row galley.

A Connecticut row galley,  filled with ice,  was  immediately cleared and sailed for  Fisher's Island in two or three hours. She fell in with and captured Captain  Brooks's Loyalist row galley there on Sunday,  January 13,  1782. Captain Brooks and his crew were brought to New London,  Connecticut in their row galley on  Tuesday and sent to the Norwich jail.42

Before January 15,  1782

Chesapeake Bay,  Conf.: 2,  38.17645 -76.21040/ 37.84753  -76.11152

The New York privateer  Resolution  takes tobacco from Whig drogers andtakes  two prizes.

The New York  privateer  Resolution  arrived at New Providence [Nassau,  Bahamas]on January 15,  1782 with 36 hogsheads of tobacco which  she had taken from drogers in the Chesapeake Bay. She also took two prizes and sent them to New  York.43

January 15,  1782

Off the Delaware Capes,  Conf.: 2,  37.76072 -74.45259

The HMS  Bellisarius  captures the Whig brig  Venus.

Commander Richard Graves's HMS  Bellisarius  captured Henry Higginson's  Boston,  Massachusetts brig  Venus  off the Delaware Capes on Tuesday,  January  15,  1782 and brought her to New York on Monday,  January 21 ,  1782. The  Venus was pierced for 14 guns but had only seven mounted when taken. She had a crew of 20 men and was bound from Havana,  Cuba to Philadelphia, with about 200 boxes of sugar and $20              Pennsylvania,0 00,  the proceeds of the ship and the brig  Hound                       Washington

,  both belonging to Salem,  Massachusetts and sold at  Havana.44

January 16,  1782

Near Puerto Rico,  Conf.: 2 ,  22.06375 -65.99311

The Whig brig  Navaro  captures the English brig  Rebecca.

Captain Taylor's Philadelphia,  Pennsylvania brig  Navaro  captured Captain John  Fauging's brig  Rebecca  near Puerto Rico on Wednesday,  January 16 ,  1782. She was bound from Jamaica British West Indies to London,  England with rum and sugar.45

January 16, 1782

See Overseas. India and the East Indies. The French fleet captures the HMS

Hannibal.

Between January 3 and 17,  1782

South Carolina coast,  Conf.: 2,  31.35223 -78.84712

The HMS  Chatham  captures the Whig brig  Olive  and a brig from the West  Indies.

Commander Andrew Snape Douglas's HMS  Chatham  sailed on January 3,  1782 and returned to New York on Thursday,  January 17. During  her cruise,  she captured  Master Freeman’s brig  Olive  bound from St. Croix,  Danish West Indieswith rum,  sugar and salt and a brig from the West Indies with rum,  coffee and other provisions. The latter was shipwrecked south of the Charleston Bar,  South  Carolina and all the crew perished.46

Before January 17,  1782

Havana,  Cuba,  Conf.: 2,  23.74361 -80.12153

The Crown privateer  Lyon takes a French schooner and a Whig brig.

The  New Providence  [Nassau,  Bahamas]  privateer  Lyon returned home on  January 17,  1782 with two prizes,  one a French schooner bound from Havana,  Cuba to Cape François,  Saint-Domingue,  French West Indies [Cap Haitien,  Haiti]with logwood. The other  was  a brig bound from Salem,  Massachusetts to Havana with fish and lumber.47

Before January 18, 1782

Atlantic Ocean, Conf.: 1, 39.65518 -68.93745

The New York privateer schooner  Shark takes a Whig brig.

The New York privateer schooner  Shark took a Whig brig bound from Boston,  Massachusetts to Virginia with bombs and a variety of military supplies and brought her to New York on Friday, January 18, 1782.48

Before January 18,  1782

Atlantic Ocean, Conf.: 1 ,  31.70807 -66.91597

The HM Frigate  Amphitrite  captures a Whig schooner.

Captain Robert Biggs's HM  Frigate  Amphitrite  captured  a schooner from New  England bound to Puerto Rico with cider and onions and sent her to New York on Friday,  January 18 ,  1782 ..49

January 18,  1782

Virginia Capes,  Conf.: 2 ,  36.68472 -72.80464

The  Santa Margaretta takes Captain Williams’s Whig sloop.

Commander Elliott Salter's 36-gun  Santa Margaretta  took Captain Williams ’ssloop from Providence,  Rhode Island near the Virginia Capes  on Friday,  January  18,  1782.50

January 18,  1782

Off Sumatra,  Conf.: 3,  6.79904,  92.22446

A French fleet of 10 ships of the line captures the HMS  Hannibal.

The French fleet of 10 ships of the line captured Captain Christie’s 50-gun HMS  Hannibal off the  north end of Sumatra on January 17 or 18,  1782. The British fleet only numbered 8 ships of the line.51

Ca. January18, 1782

Folly Island,  South Carolina,  Conf.: 3, 32.65104 -79.94590

The HMS  Chatham  captures a brig.

Captain Andrew Snape Douglas’s HMS  Chatham  captured a brig from the West  Indies with a cargo of coffee, etc. around Friday, January 18, 1782. The prize was sent to Charleston, South Carolina, but it went aground on Folly Island  (Coffin Land) south of the Charleston Bar and was lost. The  crew was saved, but the brig was burned.52

Before January 19,  1782

New Jersey coast,  Conf.: 2,  40.18555 -73.54257

The  Black Jack takes a sloop.

The Massachusetts privateer schooner Dart takes a sloop from the Black  Jack and a Loyalist galley.

Captain  William Gray's Salem,  Massachusetts  privateer  schooner  Dart  arrived  at Toms River, New Jersey  on January 19,  1782.  She brought in a sloop taken from the Black Jack  and a New York galley. The following day,  seven of  Captain Gray's men took his boat and went in pursuit of a brig which was near the bar. Neither the boat nor the men have been heard of since. 53

Before January 19,  1782

Off the Bahamas,  Conf.: 0,  25.94367 -78.77481

The privateers  Regulator,  Unicorn  and  Nassau capture Master Dehart's sloop, Master Knox's brig, a schooner, the schooner Trent, Master Willis's schooner, the brig  Hope, a brig from  Haiti, a schooner from Curaçao and  Master Bordeaux's sloop. The  Unicorn  also chases a brig.

The New Providence [Nassau,  Bahamas] privateers  Regulator,  Unicorn  and  Nassau captured the following prizes and brought them to New Providence before  January 19,  1782:

  Master Dehart's sloop bound from Philadelphia,  Pennsylvania to Havana,

Cuba  with 500 barrels of flour;

  Master Knox's brig bound from Philadelphia to Havana  with 550 barrels of

flour;

  a schooner bound from Philadelphia to Havana  with 550 barrels of flour;

  Master Campbell's schooner  Trent  bound from North Carolina to Havana

with naval supplies;

  Master Willis's schooner, belonging to Mr. James Neilson,  bound from

North Carolina to Havana;

  Master Burden's brig  Hope,  belonging to Curaçao,  Netherlands West

Indies,  bound from Cape François,  Saint-Domingue,  French West Indies

[Cap Haitien,  Haiti]  to Philadelphia with salt and  dry goods;

  a brig bound from  Cape Nichola Môle [Môle Saint-Nicolas, Haiti]  to Boston,

Massachusetts with salt;

  a schooner bound from Curaçao to St. Thomas,  Danish West Indies with

cotton and cocoa.

 The  Unicorn  chased a brig ashore on the North side of Cuba. She was

bound from Philadelphia to Havana with 200 barrels of flour and was

deserted by her crew.

  Master Bordeaux's sloop bound from North Carolina to Havana was cast

away at Abecco. The master and crew were taken up and brought to New

Providence.54

Before January 19,  1782

Celtic Sea,  Conf.: 1,  48.70942 - 14.92227

The British capture 14 French vessels.

A convoy under the protection of the Count de Guichen sailed from Brest,  Franceon December 13,  1781 with 1062 soldiers and 548 sailors. They  encountered a storm and some of the vessels lagged behind the rest of the fleet. Admiral  Kempenfelt's British fleet was about three or four leagues from the men-of-war.  The 74-gun  Active  defended the lagging vessels and fought the British for an hour and a half before the British captured 14 French vessels prior to  January  19,  1782.

When Admiral Kempenfelt saw the count de Guichen bearing down and likely to catch up with him before he could take possession of the French transports in range of his guns,  he  ordered the lower tier guns of his ship and the others of his squadron to fire into the transports. Several of them sank with every person on board.55

See also December 12, 1781. The British fleet captures 15 French transports: the frigate  Emilie,  the  Guillaume Tell,  the  Sophia, the  London,  the  Minerve,  L'Amitie Royal, the  Abondance,  the  Heros,  the  Victoire,  the  Mercure,  the Genereux, the  Marguerite,  the  Sophia, the  Africain  and another vessel. They sank two or three transports.

January 19,  1782

Virginia  Capes,  Conf.: 2 ,  36.74368 -72.13906

The Santa Margaretta takes the Connecticut brig  Samuel.

Commander Elliott Salter's 36-gun  Santa Margaretta  took Captain Elisha  Lathrop's Norwich,  Connecticut brig  Samuel  near the Virginia  Capes on  Saturday,  January 19,  1782.56

Before January 20,  1782

Atlantic Ocean, Conf.: 1 ,  31.52747 -51.55069

The English privateer  Lightning takes a Spanish packet.

The  privateer  Lightning,  belonging to Liverpool,  England took a Spanish packet and brought her to Liverpool  before January 20,  1782. She was bound from  Cadiz,  Spain to Havana,  Cuba with dispatches and $12,000 on board.57

January 20,  1782

Long Island Sound,  Conf.: 2,  41.29256 -72.01156

The  Connecticut  privateer schooner  Terror captures an unidentified vessel.  Commander John Park’s Connecticut  privateer schooner  Terror captured an unidentified vessel and four prisoners in Long Island  Sound, near Fisher’s  Island,  on Sunday,  January 20 ,  1782. The prize had a cargo of beef and provisions aboard and was sent to New  London,  Connecticut,  where she  was tried and condemned.58

January 20,  1782

Cranberry Inlet,  Conf.: 3,  39.76219 -74.09221

Captain Gray pursues a British brig and is captured.

Captain (Richard?) Gray pursued a British brig  on Sunday, January 20, 1782 but  was captured himself.59

Week of January 20,  1782

Atlantic Ocean, Conf.: 1 ,  25.93989 -70.35867

The HMS  Amphitrite  captures Captain Mason’s brig  Peggy.

Captain Biggs's HMS  Amphitrite  captured Captain Mason’s brig  Peggy and sent her to St. Thomas ,  Danish  West Indies during the week of January 20,  1782.  She was bound from Virginia to the West Indies with flour.60

Week of January 20, 1782

West Indies, Conf.: 1, 22.29075 -68.16141

The  Spitfire  captures the Whig sloop  Turk.

The  Spitfire  captured Captain Langley's sloop  Turk  and sent her to St. Thomas,

Danish West Indies during the week of January 20, 1782.61

Week of January 20,  1782

West Indies,  Conf.: 1,  23.98788 -67.89774

Crown forces capture the Whig schooner  Bee.

Master Hartford's schooner  Bee was taken and sent to St. Thomas,  Danish West  Indies during the week of January 20,  1782. She was bound from North Carolina to Curaçao,  Netherlands West Indies.62

Week of January 20,  1782

West Indies, Conf.: 1,  22.85884 -66.71121

The HMS  Québec takes the Whig schooner  Betsey.

The HMS  Québec took Adam Boothwell’s schooner  Betsey and sent her to St.  Thomas,  Danish West Indies  during the week of January 20,  1782. She was bound from North Carolina to the West Indies.63

January 21 ,  1782

Long Island  Sound,  Conf.: 2,  41.01498 -73.33503

The  Massachusetts  privateer schooner  Hero captures the British sloop  Shuldham.

Commander John G. Scranton’s Massachusetts  privateer schooner  Hero fell in with Walter Symonds’s British sloop  Shuldham with a cargo of dry goods and assorted merchandise on Monday,  January 21 ,  1782. He drove the  Shuldham to  Norwalk,  Connecticut where Major Benjamin Tallmadge and other soldiers of the  Continental Army seized her. The prize was condemned to Tallmadge on April 4,  1782 despite Scranton’s appeal to the Maritime Court for part of the prize money.  The value of the sloop and her cargo was reported as £709.64

Ca. January 21 ,  1782

New York  coast,  Conf.: 2,  40.40079 -71.57722

Two Whig privateers capture the Loyalist brig  St. Lucia which is retaken by the HM Frigate Pandora.

Two Whig  privateers captured the Loyalist  brig  St. Lucia.  She was bound for New  York with 300 hogsheads of sugar and sent to Philadelphia,  Pennsylvania. She was soon retaken by Commander John Inglis’s  HM Frigate  Pandora. She arrived at New York on Thursday,  January 24,  1782 .65

Before January 22,  1782

Atlantic Ocean,  Conf.: 1 ,  25.59887 -65.10228

The British fleet takes Captain James Barr's Massachusetts  brig.

The British fleet which sailed from New York in November 1781 took  a  brig, belonging to Salem,  Massachusetts.  She was homeward-bound from the West  Indies and taken to Barbados,  British West Indies before January 24,  1782.66

Before January 23,  1782

Atlantic Ocean, Conf.: 1 ,  40.07550 -37.50462

Crown forces capture four French merchantmen.

Four large French merchantmen bound from  Saint-Domingue,  French West  Indies  [Haiti] to Nantes ,  France are taken and carried to Newfoundland before  January 23 ,  1782.67

Before January 23,  1782

Atlantic Ocean, Conf.: 1 ,  31.83737 -52.62181

The Whig  Olive Branch takes a vessel.

Captain Caton's  Olive Branch took a vessel bound from St. Lucia, British West  Indies  to England with 200 hogsheads of sugar,  coffee ,  cotton and  other supplies and sent her to the Chesapeake Bay where she arrived before January 23,  1782.68

Before January 23, 1782

Atlantic Ocean, Conf.: 0, 43.09852 -36.18626

The British frigates  Flora  and  Monsieur  capture the Whig privateers  Hercules and  Jason.

The British frigates  Flora  and  Monsieur  captured Captain Dismore's 20-gun  Boston, Massachusetts privateer  Hercules and Captain Hamilton's 18-gun privateer  Jason  and brought them to Ireland before January 23, 1782.69

January 23,  1782

Atlantic Ocean, Conf.: 1 ,  39.16153 -69.49681

The HM Frigate  Pandora captures the Whig brig  Lark.

Commander John Inglis’s HM  Frigate  Pandora captured Captain Kendall's brig  Lark  on Wednesday,  January 23 ,  1782. She was bound from the Chesapeake  Bay  to Boston and sent to New York  where she arrived on January 27.70

January 23 1782

Atlantic Ocean, Conf.: 3,  16.99999 -54.00000

The Massachusetts privateer ship  Junius Brutus  captures the English letter of marque ship  Experiment.

Captain Brookhouse's Salem,  Massachusetts privateer  ship  Junius Brutus captured Daniel Sinclair's 20-gun letter of marque ship  Experiment  in latitude  17 N. longitude 54 W. on Wednesday,  January 23 ,  1782 and sent her to Salem where she arrived on Tuesday,  February 19. She sailed from Portsmouth,  England on December 1 ,  1781 ,  in company with the British grand fleet. She was headed to Jamaica,  British West Indies with 1500 barrels of flour and some bale goods. She carried 18 long  6-pounders and fought for an hour and a half before she struck her colors. She had two men killed and five wounded. The  Brutus  had one killed and two slightly wounded.71

Before January 24,  1782

Off Nova Scotia,  Conf.: 0,  43.28195 -60.32813

The Whig privateer ship  Grand Turk  captures a vessel loaded with fish,  a large Jamaicaman and three or four other prizes.

Captain Joseph Pratt's  privateer  ship  Grand Turk  captured a vessel loaded with fish and a large Jamaicaman with 500 hogsheads of sugar and brought them to  Salem,  Massachusetts before January 24,  1782. She also captured three or four other prizes on her passage.72

Before January 24, 1782Atlantic Ocean, Conf.: 1, 40.46863

-54.96680

A British frigate captures a large Spanish ship which is recaptured by a

Connecticut letter of marque brig.

A British frigate captured a large Spanish ship with a considerable quantity of specie, about 60 pieces of brass cannon, some ordnance stores and other military supplies and ordered her to New York. However, a letter of marque brig

belonging to New London, Connecticut fell in with her on her passage and

recaptured her without much opposition before January 24, 1782.73

Before January 24,  1782

Celtic Sea,  Conf.: 2,  49.73366 -6.25473

A French brig captures the HMS  Greyhound.

A French brig captured the HMS  Greyhound,  with Lord Charles Cornwallis on board,  off the coast of  Scilly,  England before January 24 ,  1782. The  captain of the brig took out several English sailors into his own vessel and put eight  Frenchmen and a prize master into the  Greyhound with directions to head to the first French port. Before they came near the French coast,  a violent storm arose and the vessel was in danger of being lost. Lord Cornwallis proposed to the master to restore the ship to the command of the Englishman,  pledging his honor that it would be returned. The Frenchman complied  and the vessel was brought to  Torbay,  England where Captain McBride received Lord Cornwallis. The Greyhound was returned to the Frenchmen.74

Before January 26,  1782

Atlantic Ocean, Conf.: 1 ,  31.82429 -72.27157

The Loyalist privateer ship  Renown captures the ship  Marquis Lafayetteand number of other prizes.

Captain McPherson's  Loyalist  privateer  ship  Renown captured the ship  Marquis  Lafayette,  of 10  9-pounders. She was bound from Philadelphia,  Pennsylvania to  Cape François,  Saint-Domingue,  French West Indies [Cap Haitien,  Haiti]. The  Renown also took  a number of other prizes  to  Bermuda before January 26,  1782.75

Before January 26, 1782

North Carolina coast, Conf.: 1, 34.69007 -72.66708/  33.37909  -73.45810 The  Hammond takes the Whig brig  St. Patrick, a Spanish ship and a sloop from Virginia.

The  Hammond took the Whig brig  St. Patrick before January 26, 1782. She was carrying 10 6-pounders, bound from Cape François, Saint-Domingue, French West Indies [

Cap Haitien,  Haiti] to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania with dry goods and rum. The  Hammond also took a Spanish ship bound from Havana, Cuba to  Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and a sloop from Virginia laden with tobacco.76

January 25-26, 1782

See Overseas. Bahamas. Frigate Bay. The British fleet beats the French fleet.

Before January 26, 1782

Delaware coast, Conf.: 1, 38.32694 -72.84286

The  Loyalist privateer schooner Katy and Polly (or  Kitty and Polly), formerly the privateer  Shark,  captures the Whig brig  Ann.

The HMS  Margaretta chases the  Ann’s consort.

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The Loyalist privateer schooner Katy and Polly (or  Kitty and Polly), formerly the privateer  Shark,  captured the Whig brig  Ann before January 26, 1782. She was bound from Boston, Massachusetts to the Chesapeake Bay with 1100 13-inch bomb shells. The HMS  Margaretta chased her consort, a 16-gun ship laden with brass mortars.77

Before January 26,  1782

Atlantic Ocean,  Conf.: 1 ,  39.42170 -52.62802

The Massachusetts privateer  Renown captures the Loyalist  ship  Venus. The  privateer  Renown,  from Boston,  Massachusetts,  carrying 14  9-pounders and  65 men,  captured Captain McEvers's ship  Venus,  bound from New York to  Lisbon,  Portugal and sent her to Martinique,  French West Indies before January  26,  1782.78

Before January 26,  1782

Atlantic Ocean, Conf.: 1 ,  32.44909  -49.43622

The Loyalist privateer ship  Renown captures a packet sloop.

Captain McPherson's  Loyalist  privateer  ship  Renown,  belonging to Messrs . Shedden and Goodrich,  captured a packet sloop bound from Havana,  Cuba to  Spain with three trunks of letters and a Spanish nobleman of considerable rank on board and brought her to Bermuda before January 26 ,  1782.79

Before January 26, 1782

Celtic Sea, Conf.: 3, 49.25556 -6.57333

A privateer under Dutch colors chases the English packet  Dashwood. Captain Roberts's packet boat  Dashwood  passed several French privateers off  Scilly, England unnoticed during the night. As soon as daylight appeared, a privateer under Dutch colors sighted  her and chased her for more than three hours. Captain Roberts crowded all the sail he could and escaped. He arrived at  Falmouth, England before January 26, 1782.80

Before January 26,  1782

Atlantic Ocean, Conf.: 1 ,  49.25556 -20.98739 / 47.94794  -28.80966

The Whig ship Flora  captures the Irish  sloop  Hawk the schooner  Hope

North Sea,  Conf.: 1,  53.86738,  2.91886

The Whig ship Flora  captures a brig which she burns.

Captain Lyle's ship  Flora arrived at Philadelphia,  Pennsylvania from Gothenburg,  Sweden before January 26,  1782 after  a  passage of 50 days. On her voyage,  she took the following prizes:

  Captain Murphey's sloop  Hawk  bound from Cork,  Ireland  to New York with

120 barrels of Irish mess cargo beef,  80 barrels of Irish mess pork,  150

half barrels of  mess beef and pork,  60 barrels of flour,  200 firkins of butter,

30 half barrels of tallow and 45 boxes of candles and oatmeal;

  the schooner  Hope  bound from St. John’s,  Newfoundland to Dartmouth,

England,  with 600 quintals of fish; and

  a brig which she burned in the North  Sea after taking out her sails and

other equipment.

The  Hawk and her cargo were sold at auction on March 11 ,  1782.81

Before January 29,  1782English Channel

,  Conf.: 3 ,  50.76074 - 1.15054

The HM Frigate  Diana  captures four Dutch East Indiamen: the  Prime Prince

),  Heltwoltemade,  Hoogcarpel  and  Denkbajrket (Dankbaarbeyt)

(or

.

Captain Hopkirk's  Charming Sally, from New York, put into Limerick,  Ireland in distress on February 7,  1782. Captain Johnstone boarded her off the Western

Islands and informed Captain Hopkirk that his  HM Frigate  Diana  captured  fourhomeward-bound Dutch East Indiamen from Saldannah at the back of the Isle of Wight.  Two of them were tea ships. One was a triennial ship from Borneo with many boxes of diamonds on board. They were named the  Prime  (or  Prince),

Heltwoltemade,  Hoogcarpel  and  Lieutenant Reid’s  Denkbajrket (Dankbaarbeyt).

The  Heltwoltemade arrived at Plymouth,  England on February 3. The  Hoogcarpel and  Denkbajrket were  towed  to  Penzance  on  the 8th. The  Prime  (or  Prince)foundered on January 29.82

January 30, 1782

See Overseas. South America. Demerara. Demerara surrenders to the French.

February 1782

Atlantic Ocean, Conf.: 0,  38.26832 -67.85953

A  Loyalist whaleboat captures a prize.

A Loyalist  whaleboat captured a prize with 35,000 feet of boards in February

1782.83

February 1782

Atlantic Ocean, Conf.: 2, 44.335314 -40.019020

A British privateer captures a prize.

See before June 17, 1782. Two  British frigates retake the prize captured in

February 1782.

February 1782

Off St. Kitts,  Conf.: 2,  17.48197 -62.57263

Two or three French and British ships on each side engage each other.

A British frigate is driven ashore.

There  was  an action between the French and British fleets off  St. Kitts,  French

West Indies in February 1782. Only two or three ships on each side were engaged and a British frigate was driven ashore at St. Kitts.84

Early February 1782

Delaware Bay,  Conf.: 2,  38.93830 -75.16296

The privateer  Fair American captures seven Whig vessels.

The  privateer  Fair American,  now belonging to the  Loyalists,  captured seven Whig vessels within a few days near  the  Delaware Bay.85

February 1 ,  1782

Chesapeake Bay,  Conf.: 2,  37.03351 -75.99792

The Loyalist privateer sloop  Jack-o'-Lanthorn captures a Whig schooner,

Captain Beneson's New York  privateer  sloop  Jack-o'-Lanthorn,  of six guns and 36

men,  captured a new schooner from Boston,  Massachusetts at the entrance to  the Chesapeake Bay on Friday,  February 1 ,  1782. She was bound to Baltimore,  Maryland and sent to New York.86

February 1, 1782

See Overseas. South America. Essequibo. Essequibo surrenders to the French.

Between January 28 and February 2,  1782

Atlantic Ocean,  Conf.: 0,  37.17370 -38.82019

The British fleet captures an East Indiaman.

Captain Pigot's HMS  Jason arrived at Plymouth,  England late Saturday night, February 2,  1782. He brought home bars of gold amounting to £50,000 which were part of the cargo of one of the East Indiamen captured by the British fleet.87

February 5, 1782

See Overseas. South America. Berbice. Berbice surrenders to the French.

Overseas. South America. Berbice. The French fleet takes the HM Frigate

Oronooke. Overseas. South America.  Berbice. The French fleet takes the