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"The Sierre Leone, David Lindsey, master, belonging to Philip Wilkinson, on May 27, 1756, on her voyage from the coast of Africa to St. Christopher's, was captured and carried to Guadaloupe.
"The Hawk, Owen Morris, master, on a voyage from the coast of Africa with 75 slaves, April 4th, 1756, was captured and carried into Martinico.
"The Dolphin, George Nichols, master, was captured on the coast of Africa, December 3d, 1756, and carried into Goree and condemned.
"The Industry, Thomas Underwood, master, with a cargo of 107 slaves, bound from the coast of Africa to St. Christopher's, was cap- tured April 10, 1758.
"The Prince George, John Peck, master, was captured and plun- dered on the coast of Africa, January 30th, 1761 ; voyage broken up.
"The ship Cæsar, of Newport, Jeremiah Clarke, master, left the coast of Africa September 22d, 1761; had on board 116 slaves, bound to the West Indies; was captured by a French cruiser, October 30th, off Cape St. John.
1Privateersmen of Newport, pp. 55-56.
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"The Success, Nehemiah Rhodes, master, was captured on the coast of Africa, July 8th, 1761, having on board 43 slaves.
"The Two Friends, Polypus Hammond, master, with 130 slaves and 28 elephant's tusks, was captured June 20th, 1727.
"Annamaboo, Walter Buffum, master, with half a cargo of slaves, was captured July 23d, 1758.
"The Fox, William Taylor, master, was captured at the same time and near the same place as the Annamaboo.
"The King of Prussia, Joseph Wanton, master, with 54 slaves, twenty ounces gold dust, and 66 hogsheads of rum, was captured July 23d, 1758."
THE FOLLOWING VESSELS FROM NARRAGANSETT BAY PORTS WERE CAP- TURED BY THE FRENCH DURING THE SEVEN YEARS' WAR :
DATE. VESSEL. CAPTAIN.
April, 1758-The Sally, condemned at Cuba.
The London, taken on voyage from Surinam ... The Fox, captured on coast of Africa.
Wm. Taylor.
July 1, 1759-The Elizabeth.
.Robert Burgess.
May 18, 1759-The Daniel.
Robert Rodman.
Dec. 5, 1758-The Industry.
Robert Ferguson.
June 26, 1759-The Hare.
Ebenezer Tyler.
April 28, 1761-The Sarah.
Caleb Cory.
May 30, -- The Sloop Success
Seth Harvey.
June 20, 1757-The Two Friends.
Pollipus Hammond.
Dec. 20, 1757-The Charming Betty (horses, fish and lumber)
James Dixon.
The Marygold ( horses, oil, candles). William Taylor.
Dec. 1, 1756-The Bonitar ( fish, lumber, etc.) Peleg Easton.
Mar. 25, 1757-Sirre Leone. .
. David Lindsey.
Dec. 3, 1756-The Dolphin (rum, coast of Africa) George Nichols.
Oct. 9, 1757-The Prudent Hannah (ransomed) . Ebenezer Vose.
May 30, 1758-The Hannah ( West India Goods) . . Moses Bennett.
Dec. 26, 1761-The Portsmouth ( West India goods) .. John Heffernan.
July 28, 1761-The Lydia ( wine from - John Ellsbree.
Oct. 22, 1761-The Mayflower. Thomas Child.
July 14, 1761-The King of Prussia (off Madeira) . Robert Rodman.
Oct. 21, 1759-The Bachelor ( Molasses) . William Davidson.
Oct. 4, 1761-The Penelope (money, bills of ex.) . . Robert Whately.
Nov. 14, 1761-The Four Brothers ( near Surinam) . . Peleg Thurston.
Dec. 8, 1761-The Rainbow (St. Thomas)
Ebenezer Trowbridge.
. Jeremiah Clarke.
July 25, 1761-The Cæsar. The Peggy.
Joseph Sheffield.
Sept. 29, 1761-The Charming Betty ( West Indies) .. Remembrance Simmons. Mar. 8, 1761-The Three Brothers ( West Indies) . John Coddington.
May -, 1758-The Fox.
. Edward Bissell.
Sept. 18, 1762-The Friendship (acquitted)
.John Duncan.
Nov. 30, 1762-The Susanna ( sugar and indigo) .
. Stephen Goddard.
June 22, 1762-The Black Prince (plundered and sent off) Daniel Hammond.
July 17, 1762-The Increase (in Jamaica once by French, twice British) Jirah Grinnell.
May 30, 1762-The King George (molasses) Benjamin Wright.
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DATE. VESSEL. CAPTAIN.
July 8, 1762-The Betsy ( West India goods) ........ William Robinson.
The Speedwell (taken by French, retaken by British, liberated with salvage and again captured and ransomed, cap- turned after and plundered) .Peleg Hall.
July 5, 1762-The Polly (plundered and set adrift; captured again Oct. 11, 1762) . William Ladd.
Aug. 21, 1762-The Abby (captain killed in engage- ment ) . John Donavan.
Aug. 2, 1762-The Resource ( West Indies) John Laner.
Oct. 19, 1762-The Dove (rum and salt) Remembrance Simmons.
Mar. 3, 1763-The Pitt ( West Indies) . . Christopher Allan.
Nov. 8, 1762-The Nancy ( spermaceti candles, - . George Nichols.
Dec. 2, 1758-The Swan .. William Wall.
June -, 1758-The Swallow ( from Surinam) Benjamin Gorton.
June 14, 1753-The Fanny. Benjamin Wickham.
Jan. 28, 1758-The Jamaica Packet. Anthony Blackstock.
, 1758-The Unity John Jones.
Dec. 2, 1759-The America. Henry Jackson. - -, 1761-The Hope ( sugar and molasses) William Lawrence.
Aug. 9, 1761-The Dolphin.
Jeremiah Greene.
"Some of these vessels were ransomed after capture, others were recaptured, and it was alleged that some of them were wrongfully captured and carried to the French West India islands for condemna- tions when the captains could not give the necessary bonds to defend them, and the vessels were wrongfully condemned by default."
The following account of losses sustained by the port of Providence during the Seven Years War, was published in the Providence Gazette and Country Journal, January 21, 1764, and republished in the Rhode Island Historical Society's Quarterly for October, 1896.
"A complete list of vessels fitted out of the Port of Providence (with the commanders names annexed), which have been taken, plundered, cast away, and lost at sea, from the 20th of May, 1756 (the commence- ment of the late war), to the present time.
1. Schooner Hannah .... Ebenezer Tyler taken.
2. Sloop Polly. Jacob Carpenter taken.
3. Sloop Providence. .Thos. Manchester. lost at sea.
4. Snow Squirrel. Elisha Peck. taken.
5. Schooner Rosannah. . Christopher Sheldon taken.
6. Sloop Dolphin William Chace lost at sea.
7. Snow Dolphin .Christopher Sheldon taken.
8. Brig Hope William Donnison taken.
9. Sloop Success . Benj. Wright. taken.
10. Sloop Elizabeth . Theoph. Williams .taken.
11. Snow Desire. . Rufus Hopkins. taken.
12. Schooner William James Hopkins taken.
13. Brig Wenscot. Edward Dexter .plundered.
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14. Ship Barque. John Peck. taken.
15. Sloop Endeavour .Thomas Warner taken.
16. Sloop Dove. John Dunwel. taken.
17. Sloop George Joseph Bull taken.
18. Brig. Hannah. Paul Tew taken.
19. Brig Britannia. Nehemiah Rhodes .taken.
20. Brig Cumberland. Samuel Angel . taken.
21. Schooner Warren. . .. William Earle. taken.
22. Privateer Sloop Black Snake J. Randal taken.
23. Sloop Prize
. Jonathan Pitcher cast away.
24. Privateer Brig Provi- dence Silas Cook. taken.
25.
Schooner Good Intent Theoph. Williams taken.
26. Schooner Sarah
Nehemiah Rhodes. taken.
27. Sloop Raven. Zacheriah Edey lost at sea.
28.
Sloop Elizabeth
Urian Davis
taken.
29.
Sloop Speedwell
Silas Cook.
taken.
30. Brig. Providence . John Randal taken.
31. Ship Diana. Charles Rhodes taken.
32. Sloop Dolphin. .Benj. Wright. taken.
33. Schooner Nancy .William Metcalf taken.
34. Sloop Catherine
Joseph Arnold.
lost at sea.
35. Sloop Providence
Daniel Bucklin
taken.
36. Sloop George.
.William Earle. cast away.
37. Sloop Elizabeth. John Lee. .taken.
38. Sloop Smithfield. .Samuel Warner taken. 39. Priv. Sch. Goldfinch. . W. Metcalf. taken.
40. Sloop Voluntier. .John Godfrey taken.
41. Sch. Wheel of Fortune R. Stonehouse. taken.
42. Brig Seaflower.
. George Hopkins taken and rans.
43. Sloop Pawtucket. . Rufus Hopkins taken and retak.
44. Sloop Simon Smith. taken.
45. Schooner Game-Hen. . John Peck.
46. Sloop Molly
Moses Brown
cast away.
47. Schooner Speedwell. . Simon Smith. taken.
48. Schooner Rainbow ... .Remington Arnold.
49. Sloop Joseph. .Samuel Dunn .cast away.
50. Sloop Abigail.
.Nathan Arnold. taken.
52. Sloop Polly
John Waterman taken and retak.
53. Sloop Recovery .Thomas Sterry. lost at sea.
54. Sloop Speedwell. .Gotlieb Extine. taken.
55. Priva. Sl. Revenge ... Caleb Cranston taken.
56. Schooner Greyhound .. Jesse Jones. .taken.
57. Sloop Industry
Anthony Tripp. cast away.
58. Brig Industry . Philemon Williams cast away.
59. Sloop Venus. .Joseph Kinnicutt. taken and rans.
60. Sloop Molly James Franks. cast away.
61. Sloop Mary. Ebenezer Tyler .taken.
62. Sloop Susannah Solomon Owen. taken.
63. Sloop Speedwell William Waterman .lost at sea.
64. Sloop Kinnicutt. . George Hopkins taken.
65. Sloop Voluntier . George Hopkins. cast away.
taken and rans.
lost at sea.
51. Sloop Speedwell.
John Updike. .taken.
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"About the latter end of the year 1755, the Sloop Annie, Thomas Lawrence, was lost at Sea.
"N. B. These vessels mentioned to be east away, were entirely lost to this Port, but the People were saved ; and those mentioned to be lost at Sea, never were heard of after they sailed from henee."
The names of two sea captains, Esek Hopkins and Abraham Whip- ple, who were afterward very conspicuous figures in the Revolution, do not occur in any of the foregoing lists, yet they were among the most active and successful of the privateer commanders. Esek Hopkins, organizer and first commander of the American navy, sailed from Newport from 1741 to 1755 as a privateer captain and merchant ad- venturer. His father-in-law, Ezekiel Burroughs, was a merchant of Newport. Hopkins removed to Providence in 1755; in 1756 he fitted out a vessel as a privateer, took command, and went out on a eruise. He soon eaptured a valuable vessel, brought it into Providenee, and renaming it the Desire, in honor of his wife, converted it into one of his merchant fleet. In 1757 he brought prizes into New London, where the captured goods were sold at public vendue. The Hopkins family, including Esek and his older brother Stephen, one of the Rhode Island signers of the Declaration of Independence, were largely interested in commercial enterprises and are said at one time to have been interested in seventeen vessels sailing from Newport and Providenee. Abraham Whipple is said to have eaptured twenty-three prizes during the "Seven Years War" in one eruise during 1759-1760.
While the merehants of Providence did not begin to anywhere equal or rival those of Newport in their eommereial or privateering enter- prises, the importance of the place as a port was steadily advaneing. One of the evidences of this was the removal from Newport to Provi- denee of such an enterprising seaman as Esek Hopkins in the middle of the century. The merehants of Providenee, in 1757, in a memorial to the General Assembly, made the statement that "a large number of private men of war were owned in the colony". They petitioned for a judge of vice-admiralty, instead of a deputy, to condemn prizes. At this period the Narragansett Bay ports were nurseries of seamen ; they furnished more than their share of seamen for the royal navy; and one-fifth of the adult males in the colony were engaged on board of private armed ships, and one-seventh of the remainder in the land serviee of the king. Truly the business enterprise of the Rhode Island people at this time was decidedly warlike.
Between the close of the Seven Years War, in 1763, and the outbreak of the Revolution commeree inereased greatly, as all the energy pre-
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viously put into privateering found a vent in legitimate trade. The period of the Revolution, however, witnessed a revival of privateering, greater in amount than in any of the preceding wars, and this was not only participated in by Newport, but to a greater extent by Provi- dence and Bristol than in previous wars. Privateering was author- ized by an act of the Continental Congress passed March 18, 1776. The services that the Rhode Island privateers, as well as the Continent- al cruisers, "rendered to the country, by obtaining supplies of many articles, which the colonial policy of England had prevented being produced in America, was incalculable. Without the supplies that were produced in this manner the Revolution must have been checked at the outset. Rhode Island was a rendezvous both for national and private cruisers, and the newspapers of the day are filled with the pro- ceedings of the admiralty courts held at Providence, and with the reports of their maritime exploits."1
Privateering interfered materially with the success of the infant navy authorized by the Continental Congress. The wages paid on the privateers were from one-half to twice as much more than Congress permitted to be paid on the Continental vessels, which only gave a share of one-third in all prizes taken and one-half in the case of armed vessels, while the privateers offered one-half in all cases, and occasion- ally more where there was extra hazard. These higher wages and greater chances were offered at the very time when the new navy was in want of men. Naturally the sailors flocked to the privateers and the government ships were shunned. The owners of the privateers were also, by their self-interest, opposed to the active operations of the naval fleet, as they did not want vessels to go out and capture all the best prizes. They naturally wanted to preserve that privilege for themselves. Commodore Hopkins made the charge, in a letter to the Marine Committee, that the two frigates built at Providence cost twice as much as their contract price "owing to some of the very committee that built the ships taking the workmen and the stock agreed for off to work and fit their privateers, and even threatening the workmen if they did not work for them".2 These were grave charges to bring against the men on this committee, who were leading merchants of Providence, but as no explicit denial was made, it is fair to assume that there was some truth in the accusations. This committee con- sisted of Nicholas Cooke, Nicholas Brown, Joseph Russell, Joseph
1Arnold's Hist. of R. I., vol. 2, p. 386.
2Staples's Annals of Providence, pp. 267, 268; Hopkins Papers, R. I. Hist. Society Cabinet.
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Brown, John Brown, John Smith, William Russell, Daniel Tillinghast, John Innes Clark, Joseph Nightingale, Jabez Bowen and Rufus Hop- kins. When the General Assembly met in October, 1776, Commodore Hopkins made a request that an embargo be placed on privateering, "in order that the continental ships might be manned,"1 but through the influence of the owners of privateers no action was taken, and the commodore by his course in the matter only succeeded in making ene- mies for himself.
The following list of privateers in the Revolution illustrates the growing importance of Providence as a port and the greater part her merchants were taking in the evolution of commerce.2
1776.
DATE. VESSEL. OWNERS. MASTER.
July 25-Revenge, John Sanford, Caleb Gardner ..... Samuel Dunn, jr.
Nov. 5-Expedition, Samuel Brown, Jeremiah Pratt. . Eliphalet Ripley.
Nov. 16-Revenge, Samuel Dunn, jr Joseph Sheffield.
Oct. 7-Minerva, Adam Babcock .. .Joseph Rotch.
Aug. 26-United States, Joseph Belcher. Benjamin Pierce.
Nov. 20-Greenwich, Silas Casey, Nath'l Greene & Co., Wm. Greene Joseph Gardner.
Oct. 8-Charming Sally, Isaac Sears. Francis Brown.
Aug. 8-Montgomery, Nath'l Green, John Smith, Will- iam Wall. William Rhodes.
Nov. 21-Oliver Cromwell, Nicholas Brown, William Russell
Samuel Chace, jr. Sept. 24-Yankee Ranger, William Wall, Nicholas Brown
Samuel Tripp.
Aug. 20-Diamond, Nicholas Brown. . Thomas Stacy.
Sept. -- Diamond, Nicholas Cooke, Thomas Hazard. Wm. Waterman.
Sept. 17-Broome, Zebulon Budlong. . Richard Whellon.
Aug. 13-America, Samuel Wyatt, et al.
William Dring.
July 24-Independence, Nicholas Cooke, et al.
Jabez Whipple.
Nov. 20-General Gates, George Corliss, Joseph Rus- sell
John Grimes.
Nov. 20-Favorite, John Brown. . George W. Babcock.
Sept. -- Favorite, Abner Coffin.
June 12-Polly, Joseph Cooke. . Ezekiel Durfee.
Aug. -- Joseph, John Innes Clarke.
John Field.
Sept. 11-Industry, Nich. Brown, et al.
Thomas Child.
Oct. 16-Retaliation, John Brown. Snow Bird, Israel Ambrose.
Isaac James.
Nov. 20-Hawke, John Brown.
James Phillips.
Oct. 4-Yankee Ranger, William Earle.
Daniel Simmons.
Sept. 14-Favorite, John Brown ..
Abner Coffin.
Oct. 28-General Sterling, Silas Casey
John Thomas.
April 2-Joseph, John Innes Clarke .. James Munroe.
Nov. 12-Lady Washington, Nathaniel Giles, et al. . Ishmael Hardy.
Sept. 28-Charming Sally, Isaac Sears. Francis Brown.
1Hopkins Papers, R. I. Hist. Society Cabinet.
2Copied from Sheffield's Privateersmen of Newport.
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DATE. VESSEL. OWNERS. MASTER.
Aug. 13-Polly, John Brown. Jos. Tillinghast.
. Chris. Whipple.
July 30-Putnam, John Jenckes. War Eagle,
. Isaac Field.
Aug. 27-Bachelor, John Collins. William Ladd.
July 6-Diamond, John Brown.
William Chace.
July 19-Yankee Ranger, William Wallace.
John Warren.
Oct. 11-Broome, Isaac Sears.
Samuel Wanton.
Aug. 14-Hawke, John Brown.
Arthur Crawford.
Sept. 29-Eagle, John Mathewson, et al. Isaac Field.
Nov. 6-Fanny, William Hart, et al. Azariah Whitney.
Nov. 20-Blaze Castle, Wm. Russell, Joseph Russell. . James Munroe.
July 21-Mermaid, John Innes Clarke
Oct. 28-General Warren, Silas Casey
Lemuel Bishop. Silas Cooke.
Sept. -- Gamecock, John Smith.
. Timothy Pearce.
July 16-Defiance, John Innes Clarke
Elijah F. Payne.
Nov. 13-Rover, Nicholas Brown.
John Horne.
Sept. 30-Montgomery, John Smith, et al. . Thos. Rutenburg.
Louis Thomas.
June 8-Snow Bird, Nicholas Brown Minerva, James Mowry.
May 29-Victory, Benjamin Lindsey.
Aug. -- America, Abram Page . Nathaniel Packard.
Aug. 24-Lady Washington, Samuel Wyatt. James Godfrey.
Nov. 12-Adams, Jeremiah Platt. George Shokely.
July 3-General Greene, Silas Casey John Garzie.
May 15-Montgomery, John Southwick Daniel Bucklin.
Aug. 26-Greenwich, Jacob Greene, et al. Job Pierce.
Nov. 20-Sally, John Brown. Joseph Peck.
1777.
Dec. 30-Marlborough, John Brown. George W. Babcock.
July 11-Swallow, John I. Clarke. . Benjamin Seabury.
Sept. 15-United States, N. Miller, et al. Thomas Tillinghast.
Nov. 5-Diamond, John Brown. Thomas Stacy.
Nov. 7-Blaze Castle, Clark & Nightingale.
James Monroe.
Aug. 4-Oliver Cromwell, Nich. Brown, et al. Samuel Chase, jr.
Sept. 26-Victory, William Rhodes. Jabez Westcott.
Aug. 13-Ranger, Anthony DeWolf. Isaac Eslick.
Aug. 13-Swallow, Jeremiah Clarke, et al. John Murphy.
June 12-Generous Friend, Joseph Webb Samuel Stillman.
July 3-Retaliation, John Brown. John Tillinghast.
April 30-Eagle, Joseph Lawrence. Mowry Potter.
James Hovey.
Oct. 28-Fairfield, Amos Hubbard, et al. Tartar, John Grimes.
Spitfire, .Sheffield Atwood.
General Sullivan, William Wall, et al. Henry Oman.
Betsey, John Wanton. Edward Dillingham.
1778.
April 1-General Stark, Cromwell Child, et al. Benjamin Pearce. Jan. 28-Sally, Jabez Bowen .. Lemuel Bishop.
Mar. 16-Dolly, Andrew Caldwell, et al. . . Ebenezer Williams.
April 5-General Stark, Nathan Miller, et al. . Benjamin Pearce.
Mar. 25-Minerva, William Vernon John Grimes.
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DATE VESSEL. OWNERS. MASTER.
April 20-Mary, Peleg Clarke
William Ladd.
America, William Dennis.
Betsey,
Job Coggeshall.
Two Brothers,
Joseph Bell.
May Flower,
Stephen Jenckes.
Barton,
George Wanton.
Weazle,
Joseph Mauran.
Industrious Bee,
George Allen.
Jolly Robin,
Timothy Lock.
Congress,
James Adams.
General Arnold, A. Cartwright.
General Sullivan, .William Dennis.
1779.
Sept. 4-Providence, Robert Stevens. James Godfrey.
Nov. 8-Count d'Estang, Caleb Gardner. John Sanford.
Sept. 21-Flying Fish, Nathan Miller, et al Caleb Gardner.
July 14- General Lovell, Robert Slocum, et al Isaac Rider.
Nov. 6-St. John, William Creed.
Nehemiah Adams.
Mar. 2-Molly's Adventure, James Hood, et al. Dec. 31-Providence, John Brown.
Peter Day.
Oct. 4-Fulton, William Wall, et al.
. Richard Mass.
June 26-Dolphin, John Humphrey.
Nov. 13-Black Snake, Jacob Greene, et al.
.Job Pierce.
June 11-Wasp,
Joseph Briggs.
Oct. 13-Black Snake, Jacob Greene. . Isaac Carr.
Sept. 3-Barber, William Richmond.
Michael Underwood.
Sept. 4-Providence, James Godfrey.
July 14-Hawke and Eagle, Henry Soule, jr.
Feb. 24-Weazle, Jonah Flagg.
John Wheaton.
Aug. 18-Retaliation, John Garzie
Nathan Westcott.
June 29-General Gates, Robert Taylor Elisha Warren.
Oct. 2-Abigail, Nathan Miller John Hall.
Mar. 3-Hero, Robert Taylor Caleb Greene.
May 11-Friendship, John Brown. Thomas Jackson.
Mar. 30-Bradford S., S. Royal Paine. Sion Martindale.
Sept. 13-Macaroni, Jonathan Waldron Peleg Eldred.
July 22-Success, Richard Mathewson Isaac Carr.
Aug. 25-Marvel, Walter Burdick. Elisha Bennett.
April 17-Happy Return, John Brown. William Jacobs.
Nicholas Webster.
Oct. 13-Hero, Samuel Allen
Thomas Stanton.
April 19-Providence, Samuel Aborn
. Lowry Aborn.
April 3-Lark, James Sabin.
. Benjamin Butts.
Independence, . Joseph Almy.
A privateer commanded by.
. Nicholas Briggs.
Saratoga, J. I. Clarke.
James Munroe.
Prudence,
. Lowry Aborn.
Happy Return, John Brown. Jonathan Treadwill.
Marvel,
. Elisha Bennett.
Isaac Tyler.
Feb. 26-Wasp, Samuel Bailey
Thomas Jackson.
William Cornell.
Aug. 12-General Wayne, Joseph Lawrence William Wardwell.
July 10-Barber,
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1780.
DATE. VESSEL. OWNERS. MASTER.
April 14-Argo, John Brown, et al.
Silas Talbot.
April 25-Chance, Clarke & Nightingale. Daniel Aborn.
Aug. 12-Brig Providence, Abijah Potter.
Dec. 16-Brig Marianna, John Kendrick.
May 10-Adventure, John Brown Pardon Sheldon.
Mar. 14-George, Nathan Miller Samuel Wardwell.
Mar. 14-Wayne, Benjamin Pierce.
May 12-General Washington, John Brown James Monroe.
Mar. 20-Betsey, John Brown. Joseph Cooke.
June 12-General Gates, John Mumford. Obadiah Wright.
June 3-Harbinger, John Brown. William Malone.
April 18-Crawford, Nicholas Brown John Updike.
1781.
Aug. 4-Flora, Jacob & Griffin Greene Henry Johnston.
Sept. 14-Comet, Howland Coit, et al. William Walters.
July 25-Marianna, John Williams, et al. Christopher Whipple.
Nov. 25-Brig Hope, John Brown. Simeon Smith.
Aug. 11-Sloop Hope, Clarke & Nightingale Christopher Smith.
Sept. 27-Rover, Joseph Olney.
Sept. 7-Wasp, Clark & Nightingale. Peleg Greene.
July 3-Minerva, Jacob & Griffin Greene. Benjamin Pearce.
Dec. 6-Greyhound, M. Mackay. Philemon Haskell.
1782.
May -- Chance, Clarke & Nightingale Benjamin Aborn.
July 23-Fair Play, James Phillips.
Jan. 29-Count de Grasse, John Channing Peter Aloph.
Sept. 5-Ladies' Delight, William Bucklin. William Bucklin.
Mar. 9-Chance, Francis Mulligan Samuel Watrous, jr.
Dec. 3-Trimmer, Zebulon Story Samuel Jeffers.
April 24-Rising Sun, Nicholas Brown Thomas Jackson.
Dec. 7-Modesty, Morris & Man. Clemence, H. H. Tillinghast.
William Hopkins.
Oct. 16-Phoenix, William Creed.
William Corey.
Nov. 13-General Rochambeau, John Topham.
. Oliver Read. Jonathan Coffin.
Dec. 3-Trimmer, Richard Woodson
Samuel Jeffers.
Oct. 1-Industry,
Eleazer Warren.
Aug. 5-Baton,
Daniel Collins.
July 9-Yorick, Welcome Arnold .. Industry, Henry Wyncoop.
.Peleg Greene.
July 24-Gamecock, William Hopkins.
May 25-Marquis de LaFayette, Miles Cooper
Joseph Olney. Jacob Westcott.
July 23-Fair Play,
James Phillips.
April 13-Insurance, John Brown. Isaiah Cahoone.
Jan. 3-St. John, William Creed ... . Oliver Bowen.
Nov. 16-Scammel, John Innes Clarke Noah Stoddard.
Sept. 13-Surprise, N. Silsby, et al. Benjamin Warren.
James Anthony.
Oct. 4-Unity, Cotton Gelston.
.Charles Handy, jr.
June 20-Sally, John Brown.
Alfred Arnold.
Sept. 5-Elisha Greene, 2-mast boat.
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1783.
DATE. VESSEL. OWNERS. MASTER.
Mar. 17-General Greene, Griffin Greene. . John Remington.
Mar. 9-Vermont, William Barton. Isaac Tyler.
Jan. 1-General Washington, Christopher Hopkins. . John Wanton.
Jan. 4-Marie Antoinette, Thomas Jenkins. . Shubael Worth.
Jan. 24-Nancy, John Humphrey . John Humphrey.
Mar. 25-Game Cock, John Smith. John L. Tillinghast.
Mar. 1-Lively, John Dennis. Jonathan Allen.
Mar. 1-Count de Grasse, Jonathan Dennis, et al. Jonathan Dunham.
Mar. 20-Peacock, William Creed. . Joseph Olney.
Mar. 17-Neptune, John Smith, et al
John Dalling.
Mar. 12-Fulton, William Wall. . John Pond.
Feb. 20-Snake Fish, John Brown. Josiah Cahoone.
Mar. 5-General Washington, Christopher Ellery. . William Covell.
Feb. 20-Wonder, Zebulon Story. Thomas Forrester.
Feb. 5-General Greene, Peleg Wood, et al. Samuel Jeffers.
Feb. 17-Polly, Joseph West, et al Alfred Arnold.
Jan. 24-Modesty, W. Norris. William Brown.
PRIZES SENT INTO RHODE ISLAND DURING THE REVOLUTION.
"June 13,1775, two American vessels were said to be in the west pas- sage, on the west side of Conanicut. At that time the British frigates Rose, The Swan, and a tender with five prizes were in the harbor of Newport. The two British vessels of war and the tender got under way and sailed around the north end of Conanicut to look down the west passage. In the mean time, volunteers from Newport boarded the prizes, overcome the prize crews, recaptured the prizes and took them to a place of safety."
1776.
CAPTURED VESSEL. CAPTOR. MASTER.
August-Two valuable prizes (sugar,
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