British New York Vice-Admiralty Court. Captured ship: Fame (commander David Campbell)....

British New York Vice-Admiralty Court.

Captured ship: Fame (commander David Campbell).

History: an American merchant ship with a letter of marque (schooner, 50 or 60 tons, 6 guns, 15 men, formerly the loyalist privateer Fame (William Neilson commanding), taken in August 1781 by the American privateer Fair American and brought into Philadelphia), now bound from Port Royal, [French] Grenada to Philadelphia, laden with rum; taken on 15 March 1782 off Chincoteague, Virginia by HMS Lion (William Fooks commanding), HMS Perseverence (Skeffington Lutwidge commanding), and brought into New York.

Court papers numbered CP 1-7:-

• [CP 1]: affidavit of papers brought in by the prize master John Read Wilmot, midshipman of HMS Lion, 27 March 1782;
• [CP 2]: libel in Advocate General at the relation of Fooks v The schooner Fame, 27 March 1782;
• [CP 3]: monition, 27 March 1782;
• [CP 4-CP 5]: depositions of John Grant and John Chatham, 28 March 1782;
• [CP 6]: answer and claim of Samuel Pearce mariner of New York, for himself and John Dungan mariner of New York and others, former owners of the Loyalist privateer schooner Fame, 3 April 1782;
• [CP 7]: replication;

[Decision: condemned, if no response to the monition by 17 April 1782].

Ship's Papers numbered SP 1-6A (Pennsylvania papers):-

• SP 1: ship's certificate;
• SP 2: ship's register;
• SP 3-SP 4: clearance and customs receipt from Grenada (in French);
• SP 5: top half of a printed privateer commission issued by Congress;
• SP 6: a business letter from James and John Cox, Grenada to Messrs McLenahans & Moore, Philadelphia, 16-22 February 1782, about the rum trade; enclosing SP 6A: bill of lading and orginally enclosing SP 6B [wanting], the invoice of cargo.

[Papers previously wrongly identified as Court papers: 1-7; Ship's papers: 8-14 (large pencil numbers): sorted and renumbered in 2025].